evening dress

evening dress
evening dress
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Designer
nationality
American
birth-death
1922-
Creation date
Collection
Textiles
Materials
silk chiffon, silk taffeta
Dimensions
L: 57 in.
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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Ronald Reagan and Bill Blass
Accession number
82.50
Provenance

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Bill Blass, New York (designer); Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921); through Bill Blass William Ralph "Bill" Blass (June 22, 1922 – June 12, 2002); given to Indianapolis Museum of Art (May 20, 1982).
Gallery Label

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Nancy Reagan originally wore this red evening dress by American designer Bill Blass, on the occasion of a state dinner for Japan's Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and wife, Sachi Suzuki, May 7, 1981. The gown was worn again before it was donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art on the occasion of the first state dinner for the new President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzan Mubarak, February 3, 1982.

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