Chado Ralph Rucci Evening dress and belt Black crinkle silk chiffon; leather Couture, 2003, USA The Museum at FIT, 2004.52.4, Gift of Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Jr. While construction is central to Ralph Rucci’s designs – as the light, woven-together chiffon strips of this dress demonstrate – so too is a subtle, intellectual distance. Using the finest materials, Rucci juxtaposes opposing values of luxury and restraint, and decadence and asceticism.
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