Cocktail dress
Object type: Cocktail Dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: French
Artist: Hubert de Givenchy|House of Givenchy
Artist bio: French, Beauvais 1927–2018 Paris|French, founded 1952
Artist role: Designer|Design House
Artist nationality: French|French
Date: ca. 1955
Medium: silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lauren Bacall, 1960
Accession year: 2009