{"id":77,"date":"2017-01-30T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:37:59","slug":"balenciaga-baby-doll-dress-circa-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/balenciaga-baby-doll-dress-circa-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga \u201cBaby Doll\u201d Dress, circa 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/01\/87.158.2_20080924_05.jpg\" alt=\"Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga, \u201cBaby Doll\u201d dress, circa 1957, gift of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the estate of Ann E. Woodward. 87.158.2\" width=\"465\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/01\/87.158.2_20080924_05.jpg 465w, https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/01\/87.158.2_20080924_05-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/01\/87.158.2_20080924_05-173x260.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga was an exceptional couturier in many ways, one being his ability to work outside of the dominant 1950s \u201chourglass\u201d silhouette with great success. Balenciaga\u2019s creations from the late 1950s were not only distinctive, but also prescient: his lace \u201cbaby doll\u201d dress, first presented in 1957, foreshadowed the youthful, loose-fitting fashions of the 1960s. <\/p>\n<p>Its basic design consisted of a body-skimming slip worn beneath a loose lace outer dress, sometimes cinched at the waist with a ribbon. Worn without the ribbon, the triangular-shaped outer dress may have provided inspiration for Saint Laurent\u2019s \u201cTrapeze\u201d silhouette, which he introduced for the spring 1958 collection at the House of Dior.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"padding-top: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size:11px; text-align: left;\"><strong>Balenciaga \u201cBaby Doll\u201d Dress<\/strong><br \/>\ncirca 1957<br \/>\ngift of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the estate of Ann E. Woodward<br \/>\n87.158.2<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size:11px; text-align: left;\"><em>Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968<\/em> runs through April 15, 2017 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/museum\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Museum at FIT<\/a> in NYC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balenciaga was an exceptional couturier in many ways, one being his ability to work outside of the dominant 1950s \u201chourglass\u201d silhouette with great success. Balenciaga\u2019s creations from the late 1950s were not only distinctive, but also prescient: his lace \u201cbaby doll\u201d dress, first presented in 1957, foreshadowed the youthful, loose-fitting fashions of the 1960s. Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}