Delphos Dress By Mariano Fortuny (attributed To) In Apricot Pleated Silk Pongee – Venice Circa 1920

Circa 1920-1930 Italy - Venice Long dress called Delphos, in apricot-colored pleated silk pongee by the famous Italian designer Mariano Fortuny. Tubular straight cut in four hand-sewn panels extending to the floor. Short sleeves tightened by a black sliding cord with two-tone Murano glass beads, tied at the shoulders. No damage and missing claw. Beautiful state of color and conservation. Iconography: similar dress in the painting by Joaquim Sorella, Elena Sorella with the yellow tunic 1909. Dimensions: Equivalent size 36-38 France. Height 142 cm, shoulders 39 cm, chest 87-90 cm, waist 68-74 cm, sleeve 30 cm, hips 92-100 cm. Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871 – 1949), of Spanish origin, created opera scenographies, before settling in Venice in 1889 at the Palazzo Orfei. In Paris in 1910, he patented a system of dyeing and printing on fabrics, then a type of wavy pleated garment for women, the Delphos dress, inspired by the Charioteer of Delphi. In 1919, he opened a printed fabric factory on the Giudecca in Venice and quickly achieved immense success as an interior designer and fashion designer. At 67, rue Pierre Charon in Paris, her fabrics and clothing with Renaissance, Byzantine, Coptic, Arabic, Persian or Indian motifs are sold which correspond in her mind to precise shapes: tunics, burnous, djellabas, caftans... Isadora Duncan wears her Delphos barefoot, followed by Sarah Bernhardt, the Marquise Casati, Peggy Guggenheim and many others who get their supplies from him. He enveloped the worldly elite of his time with dramatic and artistic effects. Mariano Fortuny is represented in Paris, London, New York, Madrid and Poland. He continued his opera scenography until the end of the 1930s. He died in 1949, taking with him the secret of his pleating techniques which will never be equaled.