Evening Dress, spring 1960

Silk satin with metal and iridescent thread and crystal embroidery by House of Lesage

Collection of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, QSMT 2013.4.49a-b

This dress, one of the most formal Her Majesty owned, clearly shows Balmain’s love of eighteenth-century European modes and decoration in the style and placement of the scrolling embroidery and the gown’s wide-skirted silhouette.