#Madeleine Vionnet

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Vionnet, 1939, from In Vogue: Six Decades of Fashion by Georgina Howell (1979)

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ab. 1933 Evening dress by Madeleine Vionnet

silk, velvet, crepe yarns, metal

(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)

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The Bias Cut: A Revolution in the Fashion World of the 1930s

The curvaceous silhouettes of the 1930s became known for eccentuating the female form, as apposed to the loose styles of the 1920s which obscured it. Called the "bias cut", it was a departure from the traditional cut that followed the straight line of the weave. Instead, the fabric was cut at a 45 degree angle against the weave.

Madeleine Vionnet began using this technique in the late 1920s, and it became the silhouette that would define women's fashions in the 1930s as well.

Evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet for Vogue magazine, photograph by Edward Steichen, 1930 • © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Left: Slinky hammered silk evening dress inspired by Vionnet

Right: Madeleine Vionnet design

Evening ensemble • Design House Jessie Franklin • American c. 1930 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

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'madeleine vionnet summer day dress, 1920' in modern fashion in detail - claire wilcox + valerie mendes (1991)

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Madeleine Vionnet

Designer Madeleine Vionnet (1876 – 1975) was one of Europe's greatest couturiers, famous for pioneering the revolutionary 'bias-cut' dress, draped expertly over the body, which changed the shape of women's fashion.

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Madeleine Bonnardel in Madeleine Vionnet HC FW 1933.

Photograph by George Hoyningen-Huene.

Painting by Federico Beltrán Masses.

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Madeleine Vionnet, Evening Dress, 1937 (Private Collection - exhibited through the Museum at FIT, NYC)

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Evening Dress

Madeleine Vionnet, 1929

Musée Galleira de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

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“Petits chevaux,” silk evening dress embroidered with images of horses in metallic thread, by Madeleine Vionnet, 1921.

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L'Art et la mode, no. 2636, vol. 58, novembre 1938, Paris. No. 4552. — Cette robe du soir en tulle noir garni d'applications de grappes en lamé d'or est posée sur un fond de satin noir. Evening gown in black tulle applicated with gold lamé grapes, black satin slip. Madeleine Vionnet. Georges Saad. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Négligée by Madeleine Vionnet, 1936 or 1937, Crepe-backed silk satin

Collection of the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.

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IRVING PENN for MADELEINE VIONNET CIRCA 1974 [gelatin silver print | U/D]

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"PARIS HATS COMPLETE THE SILHOUETTE"

Reynaldo Luza

Harper's Bazaar, Dec. 1928

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ab. 1930 Evening dress by Madeleine Vionnet, France

silk crepe, glass

(Powerhouse Museum)

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'madeleine vionnet evening dress (robe de style), ca. 1939' in high style: masterworks from the brooklyn museum costume collection at the metropolitan museum of art - jan glier reeder (2010)

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The outrageous, extravagant, sometimes humorous and often exquisite outfits worn by subjects of old portraits;occasionally captioned, as an attempt at satire; a little history occasionally thrown in the mix.

Frederico Beltran Masses (Cuban-born, Spanish, 1885-1949) • Madame Bonnardel, Countess de Montgomery • 1934

Side by side are the portrait of Mme. Bonnardel (aka Comtesse de Montgomery and a photograph taken of the countess in 1933 by Hoyningen-Huene for Vogue. The Vogue caption extolls her georgette dress and Moroccan cape, both by Vionnet, worn with diamond bracelets by Cartier. From (@jupeculotte)