2014.38.1

Images (5)

Nature_09 2014.38.1 (ensemble), 2010.77.1 (dress)

Global_26 Left to right 92.160.11 (dress), P88.45.1 (suit), 2000.51.1 (boots case), 98.80.1 (shoes case), 2014.48.2 (evening dress), 2014.38.1 (corset dress), 2010.87.1 (black dress), 2015.15.1 (dress)

Global_11 Left to right 92.160.11 (dress), P88.45.1 (suit), 2000.51.1 (boots case), 98.80.1 (shoes case), 2014.48.2 (evening dress), 2014.38.1 (corset dress), 2010.87.1 (black dress), 2015.15.1 (dress)

Nature_10 2014.38.1 (ensemble), 2010.77.1 (dress)

Object: Set

Brand: Alexander McQueen (English, founded 1992)

Designer: Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010)

Date: Spring/Summer 2009

Medium: Silk and leather

Country: England

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Object number: 2014.38.1

DescriptionSet, dress and corset; strapless ivory silk mini dress with flower and butterfly print in white, green, yellow and brown, fitted dropped waist bodice, pouf skirt with draped and pleated stylized panniers; coordinating brown leather corset with embossed crocodile pattern, curving anatomical seaming with white topstitching and three adjustable strap closures at back

Label Text:The 19th-century botanical imagery on this dress represents the natural world “untouched” by man. McQueen paired the dress with an embossed corset in his spring/summer 2009 collection, which was inspired by Darwin, the Industrial Revolution, and human recklessness towards nature. McQueen used angular silhouettes and dark colors in other parts of the collection to express his anxieties over mankind’s destruction of the planet.

In Collection(s)

2000s

Exhibitions:

Global Fashion Capitals
Force of Nature