Evening dress
Callot Soeurs
1926 · silk · Costume Institute
In a sense, the work of Callot Soeurs in the 1920s deflated the nineteenth-century silhouette, while distilling the sumptuous materials of dress. The tubular modernism of the Callot Soeurs is a contrast of structural reduction and ornamental play, with motifs similar to those seen in the Chinese export shawls popular in the 1920s.
- Artist
- Callot Soeurs
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- silk
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, 1944
