Picture No | 10528169 |
Date | 1960 |
Description | Balenciaga outfit, 1960 |
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A coat, jacket and skirt by Balenciaga displaying the cllllean tailoring and functional lines of his designs from this period. The jacket on the right is sleeveless and collarless with a concave front and a half-belted bloused back, double seaming and side vents. The skirt is gathered with unpressed pleats into the waistband and tapers to a hemline barely covering the kneecap. The short coat has set-in, chopped off three-quarter sleeves, a straight back and a repetition of the side vents and double-seaming.
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Source | Illustration by Graz for The Tatler, 16 March 1960 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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