"Cygne Noir"
The Silhouette Timeline traces how dress silhouettes change across the decades of the Costume Institute collection, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API (CC0) and refreshed monthly. Every record links its museum object page and carries garment family, era, season and significance labels; objects are described as cataloged, never appraised or priced.
- Object
- "Cygne Noir"
- Accession number
- 1974.312.2a, b
- Date
- fall/winter 1949–50
- Makers
- Christian Dior
- House of Dior
- Medium
- silk
- Dimensions
- —
- Classification
- —
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Culture
- French
- Credit line
- Gift of Doris Hakim, 1974
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- Dior
- Garment family
- evening
- Era
- New Look decade (1947–1957)
- Season
- fall/winter
- Material family
- silk