CALLOT Marie, Marthe, Regina & Joséphine (Callot Soeurs) (Designer)

This panniered lace dress represents the exotic work of the Callot Soeurs. Its sheer vest is wrapped over a bodice and caught into flowers on the hip. The laced skirt is appliquéd with more floral motifs. The sisters worked with exquisite and unusual materials, including taffeta inspired by eighteenth-century dresses, rubberized gabardine and Chinese silks, with Orientalisme as favourite theme. They are remembered for introducing the fashion for the gold and silver lamé evening dresses popular in the 1910s and 1920s. They were influential into the 1920s when Madame Marie Callot Gerber, the eldest sister, was referred to as the backbone of the fashion world of Europe. Madeleine Vionnet said of her training at Callot Soeurs, "Without the example of the Callot Soeurs, I would have continued to make Fords. It is because of them that I have been able to make Rolls-Royces". 

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