CAPUCCI Roberto (Designer)

Two immense ball gowns are assembled from an acre of pleated rainbow taffeta. The backs are constructed in such a way that they appear to be shoulder-to-floor bows. They are an example of engineering from Roberto Capucci who, in 1957, was called the "Givenchy of Rome" by fashion writer Alison Adburgham. She continued, "He designs as though for an abstract woman, the woman we never meet". Such is the extravagance of some experiments that the wearer becomes secondary to the gown. For ten years Capucci showed in Rome before decamping for six years to Paris in 1962, and showing alongside fashion's other architect, Cristóbal Balenciaga, with whom he is often compared. The purity of Capucci's work extended to his selling technique. His fashion shows would be conducted in silence and he refused to replicate an outfit, so that any woman buying from him would have to do so from the show collection. 

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