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Cocktail dress

Item

Title

Cocktail dress

Description

Black velvet cocktail dress; jewel neckline; long sleeves; black beaded decoration around hips; two layers of black fringe make up skirt; knee length; lined; center back zipper closure.

From Oscar de la Renta's Fall/Winter 1991/1992 Collection. According to an email from the donor: "The dress I donated was an original one [Oscar de la Renta] made for his Fashion Show, a sample piece which he later gave me after I was able to wear it to a black tie event in New York. My husband worked with him on a fragrance."

Relation

Detail of snap closures at skirt (Object ID #2013.02.04)

Creator

De la Renta, Oscar

Date

1991

Source

Donor: Diane McLarnon-Aiken

Identifier

Object ID #2013.02.04
https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/d6f98e7556c09d4883417613bcdace36.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Subject

Clothing and dress

Type

Still Image

Format

360 View

Citation

De la Renta, Oscar, “Cocktail dress,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed April 1, 2026, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/4761.