Evening ensemble, ca. 1920, French, a, b) silk; c) silk, enamel, A nightshirt and shorts from the wardrobe of Denise Poiret

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Evening ensemble, ca. 1920, French, a, b) silk; c) silk, enamel, A nightshirt and shorts from the wardrobe of Denise Poiret reintroduce one of Poiret's earliest interests, the simple forms of classical dress. The first manifestations of a Neoclassical sensibility appeared in his designs of 1906 and reflected the proportions and cylindrical silhouette of the Directoire

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