Set
Brand
Alexander McQueen
(English, founded 1992)
Designer
Alexander McQueen
(1969 - 2010)
Spring/Summer 2009
Ivory silk and brown leather
Museum purchase
Object number2014.38.1
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.
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 backCollections
Exhibitions