Cocktail dress
Object type: Cocktail Dress
Department: Costume Institute
Culture: French
Artist: Jean Dessès
Artist bio: French (born Egypt), Alexandria 1904–1970 Athens
Artist role: Designer
Artist nationality: French, born Egypt
Date: ca. 1952
Medium: silk
Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dorothy Baden Stamm, 1963
Accession year: 2009