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Exhibition of ar deco clothing in Moscow Kremlin
Dress — Callot Sœurs. France, winter 1922.
Lamé silk brocade, trimmed with bead embroidery and tassels; long folded-panel train. Photo ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama
Dress — Callot Sœurs. France, winter 1922.
Lamé silk brocade, trimmed with bead embroidery and tassels; long folded-panel train. Photo ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama
Evening Dress — Madeleine Vionnet. France, 1927. Silk gauze with gold thread and bronze cord embroidery, strap with tassels. Photo ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama
Dress — Boué Sœurs
France, circa 1923. Taffeta, embroidered cotton organdie appliqué. Photo © The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama
Home dress — Japan, 1900s
Silk crepe, ‘habutae’ (Japanese plain silk weave), ‘fuki’ (padded hem); weaving, embroidery.
Photo © The Kyoto Costume Institute
Court Presentation Dress and Train — Worth
France, 1914. Lamé taffeta, silk tulle with sequin embroidery and rhinestone trimming, train of silver lamé taffeta covered with silk tulle, sequin embroidery and rhinestone trimming.
Photo © The Kyoto Costume Institute.
Coat — Paul Poiret
France, circa 1925. Silk velvet; gold thread embroidery; smocking.
Photo ©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Takashi Hatakeyama
Bandeau — Cartier
New York, 1924. Platinum, a natural pearl, round old-cut diamonds, two pear-shaped diamonds. Photo © Cartier Collection
Blue Train Powder Case — Van Cleef & Arpels
Paris, circa 1931. Platinum, emeralds, sapphires, diamonds. Photo © Van Cleef & Arpels Collection
In Moscow Kremlin Museum there will take place the extensive exhibition of a collection of women’s clothing of an art deco era from the collection of Kyoto Costume Institute, and also jewelry of the 1910-1930th Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. 119 objects from Kyoto Costume Institute for the first time left Japan. Among exhibits — evening dresses and a coats, dancing and cocktail ensembles, and also a special kind of elegant dresses which appear in female clothes during art deco era under the name “robe de style”.
The way of demonstration of a dress in combination with jewelry is chosen not casually. For the first time clothes and jewelry as uniform ensemble were presented at the initiative of Louis Cartier and Jeanne Lanvin in the Elegance pavilion at an exhibition in 1925 in Paris which gave the name to style of art deco subsequently. To style which didn’t lose the relevance till today.
