Italy
Salvatore Ferragamo,
Creations Ferragamo.

Shoes, 1935-36.

Silk, leather, wood.

©️ FIDM
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Paris
Maison Madeleine Vionnet.

Ethereal Evening Gown, 1930.

Silk mouselline, embroidery of glass tubes and rhinestones.
length: 160 waist: 62 cm.

Gift of Madeleine Vionnet, 1952.
©️ MAD Paris
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Madame Moitessier, 1856.

'Commissioned in 1844 to celebrate the marriage of Marie Clotilde-Inès de Foucauld to wealthy merchant, Sigisbert Moitessier in 1842.'
It took Ingres 12 years to finish this portrait ❤️‍🔥
©️ National Gallery

France.

Lovely Cerulean Dress, 1907-10.

Silk Charmeuse, silk mousseline, lace & silk tulle.
Length 160 cm.

©️ MAD Paris
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American.

Dress, early 19th c.

Silk figured weave, silk and cotton linings, silk piping, metal hook and eye, and cotton tape.
Dyed with madder or cochineal, length 139 cm.

©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Made America.
Woven unknown country.

Day Dress, 1868-70.

Pineapple leaf fiber (piña) plain weave; silk plain weave underdress trimmed with silk net.
Worn by Mary Francis Cook of Hyde Park, Mass.; piña brought home by her father, a sea captain.

©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Paris
Maison Madeline Vionnet, haute couture.

silk Satin Dress, 1918.

Length: 143 cm.
©️ MAD Paris
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Lovely Robe/ Dressing Gown, c.1866.

Wool, silk & metal.

©️ FIDM
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Paris
Maison Premet,
8 Place Vendome.

Evening Dress, c.1914.

Silk satin, silk plain weave (chiffon), moiré, net, trimmed with net and silk flowers.
©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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France.

Dress, 1900.

Silk taffeta, broderie anglaise.
Waist 57 cm
Length c.150 cm

©️ MAD Paris
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Paris
Maison Rouff.

Evening Dress, 1895.

Silk satin, embroidered with silk and metallic threads, sequins and rhinestones; lace.
Made for Miss Elizabeth M. Larkin.
length approx. 138 cm.

©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, 1630-32.

National Gallery London.

France

Robe Volante, c.1735.

Stunning silk lampas.
Lampas has a background weft in silk taffeta with supplementary wefts laid on top forming a design, sometimes also with a brocading weft & w/silver & gold threads.

©️ MAD Paris
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Paris
Maison Worth.

Evening Dress, 1895.

Silk satin velvet.
©️Les Arts Décoratifs, via MAD Paris
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In Bed, by Italian painter Federico Zandomeneghi (1878). In private collection.

✨Jean Louis Scherrer✨ Spring/Summer 1999 Couture. 🪡

The corsetry of ✨Maison Margiela✨ Artisanal by John Galliano 2024.

The Eiffel Tower stockings of Couture ✨Jean Paul Gaultier✨ Fall/Winter 2010. 🪡

Apprentice angel climbing the stairway to heaven on the facade of Bath Abbey.

The Enchanted Castle (1664), by Claude Lorrain