Evening gown
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2026.4.1.13.CW.DR.C1962.FRAuthor:
House of Balmain (French, founded 1946)Description
A floor-length ivory shantung silk Balmain Haute Couture evening gown, sleeveless, with empire cut embroidered bodice. The rear zip fastened bodice with a wide scoop neckline and open to the blades back is totally embroidered with gold thread, artificial pearls, turquoise, brown, and green oblong stones, silk orange flowers with golden outline and orange rhinestone cores, transparent oblong beads, barrel-shaped golden beads, which also form a short fringe by the bodice edge.Materials
Shantung silkPearls
Gold thread
Rhinestones
Stones
Beads