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Dress

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.

Records
5,000
Last changed
Update schedule
58 12 3 * * UTC
Coverage
03/02/2020–09/03/2026
Method
Methodology
Object
Dress
Accession number
2023.193
Date
pre-fall 2012
Makers
  • Karl Lagerfeld
  • House of Chanel
Medium
silk, plastic
Dimensions
—
Classification
—
Department
Costume Institute
Culture
French
Credit line
Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2023
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
House
Chanel
Garment family
daywear
Era
2010s–2020s
Season
pre-fall
Material family
  • silk
  • synthetic