In the acclaimed 1950 movie, All About Eve, Bette Davis’ character, Margo Charming, launches her cocktail party by downing a Gibson and uttering the famous line, “Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.”
Though a tipsy Margo ends up ruining the party with her increasing bitterness, she looks sensational the whole time in her glamorous cocktail dress. Made of brown gros de Londres (heavy silk that photographs well in black and white) and trimmed in rich brown sable, the dress is one of the most iconic film dresses of all time.
In Head said for that pivotal movie moment, she envisioned the iconic cocktail-dress silhouette of 1950. That silhouette was heavily influenced by the “New Look” collection French designer Christian Dior debuted in 1947, and which
