Wedding ensemble

Madeleine Vionnet

1929 · silk · Costume Institute

This 1929 wedding dress is sectioned into shapes throughout its body and train of more than seven feet. There was an original lace veil, but here the dress without veil is a triumph of linear divisions made by the metallic cord. Elegant rivers of form spread from one hip or from the shoulder, their leaf-vein-like separations through the train making it seem even more elongated than it really is.

Artist

Madeleine Vionnet

Date

1929

Medium

silk

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. van Heukelom Winn, 1974