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Cinched at the waist, with full skirts usually falling below mid-calf length, Diors black gowns were hyper-feminine, and a hit in Hollywood, where the then highly popular film noir genre was pushing the femme fatale image hard

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The dress is made of delicate openwork knit

Accordingly, Monet painted Camille, a dazzling figurative painting of his lover Camille Doncieux, who would become the first Mrs Monet, The work was allegedly done in a mere four days and was well received by the critics, being described as, 'the Parisian queen, the triumphant woman' in the magazine L'Artiste