Dress, 1928, French, silk, glass, In Poiret's oeuvre, leitmotifs distinguish his designs that, otherwise, conform to prevailing

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Dress, 1928, French, silk, glass, In Poiret's oeuvre, leitmotifs distinguish his designs that, otherwise, conform to prevailing fashions. This dress, from the year before his couture house closed, reflects the period of transition from the recto-verso planarity characteristic of the 1920s chemise dress to a period when the cubistic fracturing of a garment made a design's construction comprehensible only in rotation

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