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Fall/Winter 1994

Woman's "Mercury" Evening Dress

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A feeling of ease is always present in Geoffrey Beene’s innovative designs, which range from the simply elegant to the subtly witty. Using fabric and color in inventive, unusual, and often unexpected ways, his cleanly cut designs glorify the female form. In this dress, the panne velvet spills over the body’s contours like liquid silver, while the designer’s signature side cutouts and bare back expose the body.

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Woman's "Mercury" Evening Dress, Fall/Winter 1994 | Philadelphia Museum of Art