Evening dress from Paquin
A slim, high-waisted dress in silk and tulle with bead embroidery, from fashion’s turning point around 1912.
Paquin was the first woman couturier to receive the Légion d’honneur and led fashion around 1910. Her dresses are in the Metropolitan Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Musée Galliera.
Materials: Silk, tulle, glass beads, metal thread
Manufacture: Draped and embroidered in Paquin’s workrooms, which employed over a thousand people.
The straight slim skirt and high waist – the corset is on its way out.
The bead embroidery weighting and shaping the light cloth.