late-’50s
“Hints at the [impending] freedom of the ’60s.”
The dress Balenciaga’s convertible afternoon cocktail frock
The woman Muriel Newman, a cutting-edge art collector who snapped up early works by Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, among others
Where she wore it The bow piece detaches to become a hip-cape or a shoulder-cape and could have been worn either way during afternoon drinks.
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11/23/09