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Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey Elephant that’s clearly a Hippocampus

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that’s clearly a Hippocampus

I’ve chosen a Nepalese Lokta paper for the black silk faille skirt

full of shiny rayon fibres

The original is American

I finally found it in Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclater’s ‘The Royal Natural History’ from 1893

Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey Elephant that’s clearly a HippocampusThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a cocktail dress created by Charles James in 1949; the original, in blue grey silk, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 200). My first version of this cocktail dress used a black paper patterned with gold; Ive since become much more obsessed with using paper that evokes the original fabric. This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer. Charles James is considered by

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