Terms and conditions of use
Dress
(c. 1925)
- Medium
- silk, rayon, cotton, gelatin sequins, glass beads
- Measurements
- 92.0 cm (centre back) 46.0 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- (England)
- Accession Number
- D246-1974
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Schofield Collection. Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1974
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The Art Deco style traversed art and design, with a modernist preference for geometric lines and stylised motifs. It revered the machine while remembering tradition. It cited the avant-garde movements of Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism and Constructivism, while representing a life of speed and a celebration of industry with diagonal and rectilinear lines. Surfaces shimmered in reflective textiles or clashed in loud colours as in this Dress, with its stylised pink-sequined roses spliced within a black and silver chevron, below a bodice of shimmering silver diamantés.