''Diors New Look" Please help me identify the designer of this dress.

Katrina

Katrina

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Hello,
Could someone please help me identify this dress? I bought it from a collector, but there is no tag. The dress is beautiful beyond words. Couture quality for sure (think "Vogue").
It has a fitted bodice and is a super full circle skirt with silk satin fabric. The color is just stunning - between a ruby red and cherry red, with creamy color collar and cuffs. This dress also converts....if you turn the collar and cuffs inside, it will give a completely different look. There are also two beautiful rhinestone (green & clear white stones) buttons. Please help me identify the designer of this dress.
Thank you.
K.
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I am afraid there isn't any way to do that. This style and silhouete were immensely popular, and while quite lovely, and well made, this dress isn't distinctive enough in design to attribute it to anyone specific. There are a lot of very nice dresses that don't carry a designer label . Some people removed them, sometimes they came off in cleaning. Some dresses never had a maker label.
 
Out of curiosity, does anyone know would a couture garment from this period carry a union label? as I have always associated that with more mainstream manufacturing.

Katrina your best chance of finding out the designer or maker is to come across an original advert for it, likely in a fashion magazine from this period. But without any name to go on, you are really hoping to come across it by chance.
 
Good question Melanie. There were designers in the US who produced at couture levels. Whether they used union workers ? I don't know. Off the top of my head, I havn't seen union labels in the few Galanos, Mainbocher or Norell garments I have had, but I have seen them in Trigere and Beene garments. Who used union labor might be a fun list to have!
 
Thanks to both of you for your replies.
I was looking on internet, but found nothing, except this forum.
You are right, I can only hope somebody will come across my dress by chance.
I didn't care much about the designer, until now when I started thinking about selling this dress.

And by the way good question, about the union label!
 
You can see that it's very nice quality, but Hollis is right: the silhouette and style were very popular and the dress does not feature any unusual and rare features that would enable the style to be associated with a particular designer.

There were many talented design houses in this period, and many did not put labels in. The labels and construction details you've photographed suggest to me that this is a well made garment but not the product of a famous designer, as I'd expect the seams to be finished off rather than just pinked.
 
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