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  1. Mar 7, 2021 · The strongly Surrealist Skeleton Dress was designed by Elsa Schiaparelli in collaboration with Salvador Dalí for her 1938 collection Le Cirque. About the Look. T he floor-length, black body-hugging evening gown is composed of silk crêpe with a fine matte sheen (Fig. 1/ V&A).

  2. watch Fashion unpicked: the Skeleton dress by Elsa Schiaparelli Designed in collaboration with surrealist artist Salvador Dali, Schiaparelli's elegant – yet uncanny – evening dress is superimposed with skeletal bones.

  3. Elsa Schiaparelli. The Victoria and Albert Museum. London, United Kingdom. To many contemporaries the sinister black skeleton evening dress with its padded representations of human bones...

  4. Oct 30, 2020 · 1.5K. 50K views 3 years ago LONDON. Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill as she examines Schiaparelli's uncanny evening dress, superimposed with the outline of skeletal bones. Get closer...

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  5. The Skeleton Dress The Victoria and Albert Museum. "In both Surrealism and fashion the body was. woven in fantasy and literally reimagined." Ghislane Wood, The Surreal Body: Fetish and Fashion.

  6. The Skeleton Dress The Skeleton Dress (1938) by Elsa SchiaparelliThe Victoria and Albert Museum 'Schiaparelli exaggerated the usually delicate trapunto quilting technique to make...

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  8. Designed in collaboration with surrealist artist Salvador Dali, Schiaparelli's elegant – yet uncanny – evening dress is superimposed with skeletal bones. Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill for a closer look at it's construction, featuring padding, zips, and quilting on sheer crepe fabric.

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