Fortuny pleats

Pleated silk gown trimmed at top edge of SLV, SS & peplos hem w/ striped Murano glass beads, original bronze stenciled silk satin belt signed on back at loop closure, signed tape at interior underarm "Fortuny depose Made in Italy”, original box w/ sticker “Mariano Fortuny, Venise”,

Sold at auction Mariano Fortuny Silk Pleated

Dress fabric of pleated silk, mid-cream, designed by Henriette Nigrin, possibly with Mariano Fortuny, for Mariano Fortuny, Italy, 1920-1929

A Spanish artist living in Venice, Mariano Fortuny began designing printed fabrics in 1906. In work strongly influenced by antiquity, he emphasised the fluidity of garments with no waistline, creating sober, timeless, vertical pieces perfectly adapted to revealing the forms of the body. Registered in Fortuny's name in 1909, his emblematic ‘Delphos’ dress—named after the Charioteer of Delphi—took its inspiration from the chiton, the long woollen Greek tunic, and reflects the craze for Greece…

Its goods were found in the homes of Greta Garbo and Babe Paley

‘Delphos’, dress, permanently pleated silk, designed by Henriette Nigrin, possibly with Mariano Fortuny, for Mariano Fortuny, Venice, Italy, retailed by Babani in Paris, France, ca. 1920, pale green silk dress with a matching cord, intermixed with silver, threaded through worked eyelets, and trimmed at the ends with Venetian faience beads, ribbons, belonged to Eleonora Duse

#"Peplos" Mariano #Fortuny ca. #1930

This post about the Manus x Machina exhibit at the Met focuses on the garments with pleats by Dior, Fortuny, Issey Miyake, Madame Gres and more.

The Delphos gown was a finely pleated silk dress first created in about 1907 by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo and made until about 1950. It was inspired, and named after, a classical Greek statue, the Charioteer of Delphi.