Evening dress
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2026.4.12.1.CW.DR.2017.FRAuthor:
House of Louis Vuitton (French, founded in 1854)Description
A midi-length evening dress featuring a blue and purple silk satin bodice with a peacock feather print and a black moss crepe skirt; trimmed with purple ribbed velour and black tulle. The longsleeved bodice with a deep V-neck trimmed with crinkled black velour and a thin purple braid along its edge, this facing goes in semicircles to the waist and formes at the back two non-connecting feathers with a curved detail of shiny ribbed purple velour piped with peacock silk satin under them; the dress is rear zip fastened with a diamond-shaped detail of the same velour at the back. A slightly flared skirt of black silk moss crepe has a box-pleat at the front with a black silk underlining, there are two black tulle with black polka dots oval appliques by the sides, that pass to the rear waist and piped with peacock silk satin with a black velour stripe in the middle of the piping, the second pair of arcs run in the opposite direction; the skirt is attached to a lining of black silk at front with a drapery by the hem. From FW 2017 collection, designed by Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE.Materials
Silk satinMoss crepe
Crinkled velour
Braid
Tulle