Dress
Medium
silk, metal
Classification
Dress
Culture
American
Department
Costume Institute
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926
Accession Number
2009.300.619
About the Artist
Franziska Noll Gross · 1831–1906
Franziska Noll Gross (1831–1906), a German-born American dressmaker, emerged as a skilled practitioner of late 19th-century fashion design in New York City. Little is known about her early life or training, which remains sparsely documented, though she established her atelier at 136 East 19th Street by the late 1880s. Immigrating from Germany, she adapted to the vibrant American fashion scene, cat...