DETAILS
- Artist
- Charles Frederick Worth
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- silk, metal
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Collection
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- French
- Credit line
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931
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THE ARTIST
Charles Frederick Worth
Charles Frederick Worth, the 'father of haute couture,' transformed fashion from a service into an art form and a global business.
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