Object: Dress
Brand:
Alexander McQueen
(English, founded 1992)
Designer:
Alexander McQueen
(1969 - 2010)
Date: Fall/Winter 2009
Medium: Silk jacquard
Country: England
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2016.63.1
DescriptionDress, short sleeved, full length evening dress with back bustle and train, in heavy weight red and black feather patterned silk jacquard
Label Text:The elaborate feather pattern of this dress envelops the wearer in the primary component of avian beauty. In turn, the sculptural bustle and train suggest the tail of an exotic bird. “I am inspired by a feather’s shape, but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness, and its engineering,” McQueen said. “I try to transpose the beauty of a bird to women.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Force of Nature
- Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT