After her return to Argentina following her 1947 European "Rainbow Tour", Eva Perón gave her "look" something of a makeover. Gone were the glistening, tortured pompadours, the massive chignons, replaced by a sleek golden helmet, softened only by a discretely braided knot at the back. Her Paris clothes and jewels were still lavish, but noticeably more tasteful. She was an avid customer of Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, Christian Dior and Jacques Fath. The designers reportedly kept mannequins in their workshops made to her specific measurements; Dior is quoted as once telling an interviewer, “The only queen I ever dressed was Eva Perón.”
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Thanks to its adaptation for use in the costuming of the musical "Evita", this particular Dior-gowned toilette has become iconic.
(The title of this post is a fragment of a song lyric from that show, of course.) |
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For the outrageously glamorous and idealized - painted - images of Evita in all her
haute couture,
haute joaillerie glory, please see
this previous post.
