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Dress
(c. 1925)
Medium
silk, rayon, cotton, gelatin sequins, glass beads
Measurements
92.0 cm (centre back) 46.0 cm (waist, flat)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Schofield Collection. Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1974
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
(England)
Accession Number
D246-1974
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest