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1924 circa Aquamarine Art Deco Beaded Evening Gown

$1255 (inquire about/purchase this item)


Description: The convergence of Art Deco line, the modernist impulse to facilitate pure form, and Japonisme's potential to offer a vocabulary of untailored wrapping shapes was more than fortuitous. Chanel uses a French ombr� textile with pattern sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion designers discovered from the East that untailored lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms for apparel.


Condition: Near Mint

Superb condition. Silk is strong, fresh, and supple, despite the fact that this gown is densley beaded and very heavy. Definitely wearable. No discernable bead loss.

There are some threads pulling loose at the dropped waist, from the gown's weighty hem, but these could be tightened or resecured. It's unclear whether this gown was a slightly longer 1922 style that was shortened around 1924 to accomodate the new, higher hem lengths, or whether the gathering was done originally and intentionally to give the appearance of the fashionable drop-waist.