1876-1975 Madeleine Vionnet

[DosViolines]

Madeleine Vionnet (France, 1876 - 1975)
Woman's Dress, circa 1925
Silk chiffon, silk crepe

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[DosViolines]

Madeleine Vionnet Evening Gown, Late 1930s

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[DosViolines]

Robe du soir de Madeleine Vionnet, vers 1924

La robe longue, souvent prolongée d'une traîne, est de mise lors des galas de mode et lors des très nombreuses soirées de bienfaisance organisées après-guerre. Dans leurs colonnes, les chroniqueurs mondains détaillaient les modèles de haute couture portés par les invitées. Brodée de perles blanches, de strass verts et de fils métalliques cuivrés, cette superbe robe en mousseline de soie verte dégradée signée Madeleine Vionnet a dû faire sensation !

Photo © Stéphane Piera / Galliera / Roger-Viollet
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[Miss Galliano]

so in love with these dresses !

 

[eugenius]

Does anybody have any pics of Christina Aguilera in vintage Vionnet? She wore a black dress of hers to one of the award shows a few years back..I remember this was during her "Dirty" phase, so of course, it looked like total trash on her..

 

[DosViolines]

Gown, 1938

Madeleine Vionnet

Smoke-gray chiffon, rhinestones and silver beads. Worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II when she was presented to the Queen of England in 1938.

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© Chicago History Museum
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[Miss Galliano]

wow sstunning this last dress !

 

[DosViolines]

The photographs of Edward Steichen are characterized by a bold sense of visual drama as well as a newly independent feminine ideal. Both elements are present in this image of models Ruth Covell and Marion Morehouse that appeared in the October 15, 1932, Vogue. Morehouse, a Steichen favorite, soon married poet e.e. cummings; Covell wears an ensemble by Madeleine Vionnet of a long white crepe dress with a dark sash.

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[lotusgreen]

this is wonderful

 

[magicdirt]

these dresses are so lovely!

especially the grey one.

 

[MUXU]

i got a great big book from the library today on vionnet's designs along side with the patterns of the dress shown. it is so much more amazing seeing the patterns of the dresses.
seriously, without vionnet existing on this earth and did what she did, modern dressmaking would not advanced at what we have now.

 

[Miss Galliano]

still love the shapes ...

 

[Jamess]

From Vogue.co.uk:

Vionnet Away
26 January 2009, 11:08AM

IN a rare move, the British government has swung into action to avert a fashion crisis - placing a bar on the export of 11 rare dresses by Madeleine Vionnet in the hopes that a £450,000 asking price can be raised to allow them to remain in the UK.
The Culture minister, Barbara Follett, ruled that the designs must stay - for now - following a recommendation from the Reviewing Committee on the Export Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, on the grounds that they are of outstanding aesthetic importance and of outstanding significance for the study of the history of fashion.
"Madeleine Vionnet is not well-known in the UK and is underrepresented in our public collections," Pamela Robertson, a member of the reviewing committee, told press. "As well as being beautiful objects with great public appeal, these dresses form a highly important research collection for students of fashion and social history."
The dresses were purchased from Vionnet between 1929 and 1938 and it is thought that the current owner would like them to be sent to the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris - to which the designer bequeathed her collections after her death - as part of an upcoming retrospective of her work.
The government has deferred the decision on the export license application until April 22, by which time it hopes that a public collection will match the price.
Leisa Barnett

 

[gius]

from facebook.com

 

[gius]

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[runner]

Madeleine Vionnet, puriste de la mode
24 June 2009 - 31 January 2010

Les Arts Décoratifs is devoting a major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet. In 1952, the couturière donated 22 dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to Les Arts Décoratifs. Selected from her major works between 1912 and 1939 and now restored with the aid of Natixis, this exceptional collection of avant-garde designs can at last be shown to the public. Madeleine Vionnet’s entire career was marked by her constant quest for freedom in extremely refined but unfettered designs close to antique drapery, which continue to fascinate couturiers such as Azzedine Alaia, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and John Galliano.

details available only in french
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/fra...uellement-447/madeleine-vionnet-puriste-de-la


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[flyme2themoon]

Madeleine Vionnet and the Female Body

The designer was an absolute revolutionary, using crepe-de-chine lining material against the straight grain of conventional cutting. By the end of the first displays, you see not only how a "toile" or pattern was laid out, but also slithering evening dresses, twinkling with embellishment - although, as Vionnet said: "I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress."
Photo: Patrick Gries

Source: nytimes.com

 

[flyme2themoon]

Madeleine Vionnet and the Female Body

No wonder that John Galliano - whose career was built on a revival of the bias cutting for which Vionnet was famous - is not only passionate about this new Paris exhibition, but is also urging all his staff to go see it. Nor that Karl Lagerfeld, the re-interpreter of Chanel, is prepared to acknowledge the importance of the Vionnet inventions, even if fashion history has crowned Coco as women's liberator.
Photo: Patrick Gries

Source: nytimes.com

 

[flyme2themoon]

Madeleine Vionnet and the Female Body

The first object to catch the eye is not a dress, not even the extraordinary experiments with a new geometry in Vionnet's early career. It is the articulated wooden doll on which the couturier, who did not sketch or draw, tried out the shapes and drapes that re-invented the way that women covered their bodies.
Photo: Luc Boegly

Source: nytimes.com

 

[flyme2themoon]

Madeleine Vionnet and the Female Body

"Madeleine Vionnet, Puriste de la Mode" is an intelligent and illuminating exhibition and an example of excellence from its curator, Pamela Golbin. For she tells the story of a determined woman with a visionary attitude entirely through the clothes - adding a touch of technology in small computerized screens, each of which shows an illustration of a garment in its historical context.
Photo: Patrick Gries

Source: nytimes.com