1876-1975 Madeleine Vionnet

[DosViolines]

"Vionnet Gown - 1925 Fashion photograph" by Edward Steichen

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[DosViolines]

Madeleine Vionnet, Evening dress, 1929

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Spirals & Ellipses
Clothing the Body Three-Dimensionally
Mull and Palmer Galleries, September 1, 2005, to October 1, 2006
[SIZE=-1]Anne Bissonnette[/SIZE][SIZE=-1], Curator[/SIZE]

Madeleine Vionnet
(1876-1975)​

Designer, costume conservator and author Betty Kirke has been researching the work of Madeleine Vionnet for over thirty years. She met with Vionnet in 1974 in an effort to understand her extraordinary body or work. Mrs. Kirke was able to examine many gowns in Vionnet's collection and in museums around the world. Fascinated by the technical innovations of Vionnet's work, she observed every garment in detail. Because many gowns had been cut on the bias, gravity had distorted the cloth. As a result, Mrs. Kirke painstakingly measured the warps and wefts of pieces of many gowns in order to un-skew each part and obtain the original pattern shapes. This led to the discovery of Madeleine Vionnet as a master geometrician and to the creation to one of the most original, important and impactful book in the field of costume history: Betty Kirke's Madeleine Vionnet (Tokyo: Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., 1991).

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[taperjeangirl]

Have just fallen in love with the dress in post #110

 

[lucy92]

theres a new book coming out soon about her designs coming out soon which will have actual patterns and instructions on how to make some of her gowns.

 

[Miss Galliano]

well that is great i can wait to make that dress 11 .. so beautifulll...

 

[xxjean]

I tried to find images of her dresses on the internet over the summer, but suddenly, I JUST realized that tfs would have a thread on her. Her dresses are beautiful.

pic from livejournal

 

[jssy4eva]

Wasn't Sophia Kokosalaki going to design a collection under her name this season? Does anyone know what happened with that?

The dresses posted in this thread are stunning BTW

 

[KhaoticKharma]

This stuff is all so beautiful... looking through this thread and the Christian Dior thread, I know that if I were a famous celeb, I would ONLY wear vintage stuff like this!

 

[happyguy]

Evening dress
by Madeleine Vionnet
France
1930
Silk velvet with pink and purple chiffon streamers

vam.ac.uk

THIS dress...is gorgeous!!!

 

[Whitelinen]

DosViolines, are you a living archive? Again you are posting beautiful pictures of the fashion history. Thank you so much for always bringing these in

I'm in love with the evening dress with the birds.

 

[La bordélique]

Mémoire de la mode: Vionnet
Éditions Assouline
Lydia Kamitsis





Source: my scans

 

[La bordélique]

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Source: my scans

 

[DosViolines]

Thanks for all the scans
And I do mean all the scans you've posted in the designer threads

 

[Miss Galliano]

wow gorgeous love this thread

 

[fouroclock]

These pictures are too beautiful for my eyes.

 

[ilaughead]

This isn't on the Assouline website anymore! Any ideas on where it's available?

 

[lotusgreen]

such gratitude for all the beauty!!!

 

[DosViolines]

Vionnet Velvet Rose Applique Evening Gown
1938
The halter gown tying at neck, with bare back, five buttons with loops at waist back, the full circle skirt stiffened with horsehair at hem, bodice and skirt applied with brilliant voided velvet clusters of lilac, salmon and magenta roses, size 8, labeled: Madeleine Vionnet /Made In France.
Good condition, some mends along bodice edges, minor alteration, probably for size, at waist, one skirt seam loosely resewn, several replacement buttons.
The dress is from Vionnet's last collection and was originally illustrated in Harper's Bazaar, September, 1938. See Kirke, Betty, Madeleine Vionnet, p.176.

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[Miss Galliano]

great dress ~~ purple/black