Evening Dress – (Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain

Date: 1960

Museum: Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (Bangkok, Thailand)

Technique: Satin

This dress, created in spring 1960, is one of the most formal Her Majesty owned, clearly shows Balmain’s love of 18th-century European modes and decoration in the style and placement of the scrolling embroidery and the gown’s wide-skirted silhouette. Silk satin with metal - and iridescent-thread and crystal embroidery by House of Lesage.