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Victoria and Albert Museum: Fashion Unpicked - The Skeleton Dress - Elsa Schiaparelli

From the Victoria and Albert Museum"Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill as she examines Schiaparelli's uncanny evening dress, superimposed with the outline of skeletal bones. Get closer than ever before and see how padding, zips, and quilting have been used to construct such an elegant yet surreal garment."

 

Click Here to learn more about the Victoria and Albert Museum's Elsa Schiaparelli Collection.

 

Watch the video below and learn more about this dress from Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí from 1938.

 

 

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Sharon DeLong
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Thank you for this series on designers and specialty garments. I was a garment sewist long before I started quilting. I've always been fascinated by the techniques used.

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