Cocktail Dress in Silk Charmeuse 1959BA001A

The layers of off white silk charmeuse in this dress represent the overlapping sheets of paper. The dress is a remade version of the 1959 short dress made according to the original paper patterns under the direction of Roberto Capucci. It is part of a line of 10 garments presented in Florence, at the Palazzo Pitti Sala Bianca, for the spring-summer 1959 collection.

Courtesy of the Roberto Capucci Foundation

● Type: Dress
● Material: Silk charmeuse
● Date: 1959

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