help with 60s dress id/designer....UPDATE

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Hello all,
Quite a while back (November or so) I posted a query about a 60s dress. The dress, to refresh, is very heavy black wool crepe, lined in silk, hand set zipper, no label. I knew it was 60s, it looked familiar, I found nothing.
While many folks view my post, and many agreed that it was familiar, no id.
A delightful, I will call her Miss M, reader of the VFG board found my query and contacted me.


"It is a Cardin; called a carwash dress, see pic . I will also attach another dress image similar to yours in orange. It is also a Cardin from about 1968. I found another dress last night that looks like a later variation of the carwash dress. I’ll see if I can find it again. Because these dresses are from Cardin’s most important and innovative period as a resigner, many of them are in museums. I believe this dress is one of them.



In the late 60’s, Cardin started the movement to make fashion accessible to people outside of the couture salons. His outside first show was at Printemps in Paris and then he started selling from his salon to buyers from the larger well-established department stores. "



cardin1.jpg



cardin2.jpg


http://tinyurl.com/4fwo6et

Another link in the next post...
 
Another link:


http://tinyurl.com/4oq9sq7

I love this one (Miss M actually sent me many links) the picture, the date, and the article, its got it all.

So, I thought I would share this with you all for 3 reasons
1 to publically thank Miss M for her super sleuthing skills
2 to thank the VFG for being the vehicle for the info coming to me
3 sooooo cool

enjoy
gloria xox
(thanks m! xox)

Sorry, the former link didnt work, i shortened it
 
Hi Gloria,
I found this today and thought it might be of interest to you!
Its from Millers Collectibles Price Guide 2009 i believe!
The picture isnt totally clear as it was taken on my phone but i think its your dress!!

pierre.jpg


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Thank you so much for sharing, it's a super dress. It's a pity when labels are removed. I'm sure most of us have had a great dress whose label was removed and we did not find out who the designer was.

When I had my shop back in the 80s, I had a fabulous green fully sequined late 20s dress. One of my very good collector clients purchased it and had it attributed as a Chanel in Paris.

She later donated it to a museum.
 
mary jane,
oh my chanel! your dress found its proper home...
i have a feeling this never had a label. because it was part of a experimental and innovative phase that cardin was doing in like 66-68, and never went in production. (does that make sense??) another link i have is Kerry Taylor auctions (UK) shows it in black also and not labeled. i purchased this at auction. the estate was a long time collector/dealer in clothing and textiles. many items i purchased had pounds sterling price tags on them, so my feeling is that it was perhaps purchased somewhere in europe.
gloria
 
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