Fall 1959
Woman's Cocktail Dress
This dress, with its vertically ruffled skirt made with bias-cut strips of fabric, illustrates Galanos's masterful use of chiffon. Although it is one of the most difficult fabrics to work with, chiffon became a Galanos signature for his most elegant cocktail and evening dresses. His prodigious use of the textile is said to have single-handedly revived the French chiffon weaving industry after World War II.
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