Luis Estévez
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Luis Estévez was a Cuban-born American fashion designer and costume designer, active between 1951 until 1997. According to the New York Times, "Luis Estevez always did make a lady look like a vamp", k
Estévez in 1975
First Lady Betty Ford meeting Luis Estévez in 1975 in the west sitting hall of the White House.
A formal gown with a cape designed by Luis Estévez in 1975, for First Lady Betty Ford.
Portrait of Madame X
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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is an 1884 portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was pain
Luis Estévez
…party choice in the 1960s for celebrities, politicians, and socialites. In 1960, Estévez created a black dress based on the John Singer Sargent painting Portrait of Madame X (1884). Dina Merrill modeled the Estévez dress for photographer Milton H. Greene published in Life magazine on 11 January 1960. In the 1960s and 1970s…
Madame X, John Singer Sargent, 1884
A figure study by Sargent in watercolor and graphite, c. 1883
Unfinished study in Tate Gallery
On display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art