New York - Evening Dresses and Gowns

Jean Louis Scherrer, wool, cocktail dress with long sleeves and jeweled neckline and shirring detail up the middle front of the dress.

Charles James magenta taffeta faille cocktail dress with intricate tuck and drape at bodice and faux "apron" panel concealing deep unpressed pleats. Unlabelled.

White satin and ivory taffeta "Lampshade" gown by Charles James with custom bugle beaded decoration. Oversized boned and crinolined flounce. The armature underneath allows the aerod...

This dress is made of finely pleated black colored silk with silk cording along side seams,shoulders and tunic hem with multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. The...

Vintage Bill Blass Lace Dress with Very Large Silk Bow

Versace Couture gown of ivory rayon matte jersey with a quilted and shirred bodice with a skirt of shirred floating panels. Shoulder straps are adorned with glass Medusa ornaments se...

This dress is made of finely pleated black colored silk with silk cording along side seams,shoulders and tunic hem with matte frosted colored glass beads threaded through the cordin...

This dress is made of finely pleated black colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. Named after a Greek classi...

This dress is made of finely pleated shell pink colored silk with silk cording along side seams ,shoulders , and tunic hem, and mat frosted colored glass beads threaded through the...

This dress is made of finely pleated amythest colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. Named after a Greek cla...

This extraordinarily rare dress is made of finely pleated white cotton. Few cotton pleated Fortuny dresses have been documented and survived. Named after a Greek classical sculpt...

This dress is made of finely pleated cafe au lait colored silk with silk cording along side seams and clear striped glass beads threaded through the cording. Named after a Greek ...

This made This dress of finely pleated apricot colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. Named after a Greek cla...

This dress is made of finely pleated cobalt blue colored silk with silk cording along side seams ,shoulders , and tunic hem, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cordin...

This dress is made of finely pleated claret colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. The beads are amber glass with...

This dress is made of finely pleated sienna colored silk with silk cording along side seams,shoulders and tunic hem with multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. The...

This dress is made of finely pleated off white colored silk with silk cording along side seams and clear striped glass beads threaded through the cording. Named after a Greek cl...

Description: This dress is made of finely pleated shell pink colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording. Named aft...

Elsa Schiaparelli was well connected into the avant-garde artistic and intellectual circles of New York and Paris in the 1920s and 30s. She regarded fashion as art and thought of herself as an artist. She was the first and arguably the most influential designer to explore irony in dress, collaborating frequently with fellow Surrealists Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, and Man Ray. One is reminded of the famed Dali-Schiaparelli organdy Lobster dress...

Geoffrey Beene "Boutique" Black cocktail gown has a centered front slit measuring 23 1/". The bodice has a flesh-colored lining giving the appearance of pure sheerness. The centered front invisiable zipper can be worn high-neck, or opened deep. The zipper measures 22", collar is 1 1/2" in height, neck-to-shoulder is 4 1/2". The over-dramantic sheer sleeves...

Jeanne Lanvin black silk with Swiss hand-done lace in gun-metal hue.The gown is fully lined in fresh-tone chiffon at the bodice, and black silk at skirt section, with a side slit of ...

Although designed for safety aboard ship, this collectible Moschino dress can come in handy at your next cocktail event. Locator, whistle, inflator and resuscitator all at your finge...

This extraordinarily rare dress is made of finely pleated white cotton. Few cotton pleated Fortuny dresses have been documented and survived.

Named after a Greek clas...

This made This dress of finely pleated apricot colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording.

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Description: This dress is made of finely pleated shell pink colored silk with silk cording along side seams, and multicolored glass beads threaded through the cording.