Ball gown

Arnold Scaasi

1955 · silk, pelon, boning · Costume Institute

When he first arrived in New York in 1955, Scaasi worked for Charles James. From James, Scaasi developed his idea of the body as an armature for biomorphic geometry during the same era that Saint Laurent at Dior was creating the pure geometry of the trapeze.

Artist

Arnold Scaasi

Date

1955

Medium

silk, pelon, boning

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Miss Gillis MacGil, 1961