Evening dress
Object type: Evening dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: French
Artist: Elsa Schiaparelli
Artist bio: Italian, 1890–1973
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: fall 1938
Medium: silk, plastic (cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate), metal
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent Huttleston Rogers, 1951
Accession year: 2009