The Skeleton Dress - Elsa Schiaparelli | Fashion unpicked | V&A

Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill as she examines Schiaparelli's uncanny evening dress, superimposed with the outline of skeletal bones.
Get closer than ever before and see how padding, zips, and quilting have been used to construct such an elegant yet surreal garment.

[nanananananananana]

the back of that dress is my favorite part, SO cool

[Weesperbuurt]

Amazing work and imagination! Zips at the shoulders, lots of bones....although I have a bone and a seam to pick. The dress was actually made by highly-skilled seamstresses whose knowledge, experience, ingenuity, suggestions and trial and error were just as important but who were paid little and worked long hours. The unsung heroes of fashion.

[lalafunnys]

SO happy to finally be able to see this dress in greater detail! I discussed this dress at length in one of my classes and was only really able to catch bits and pieces of this remarkable design from my internet sleuthing.

[АнгелинаИрхина-чв]

I think it's fantastic. I adore such kind people who can create this🙂

[vamuseum]

What's your favourite spooky fashion garment?

[theonlygosha]

Someone should be allowed to do a photoshoot in this

[kathyjohnson]

zippers always remind me of backbones; I can't imagine a better dress to use them.

[StellaMariaGiulia]

Actually it looks odd to us, but when zips came to be around the 30s were considered a novelty item and so they feature front and centre on more than one dainty dress!

[leylav]

Started watching this just to find the modern skeleton black dress CAUSE I WANT TO BUY IT

[deancera]

nice extension of the construction of the human figure

[curiousworld]

I love Schiaparelli's designs, and I appreciate the art of Dali, but I have issues with his politics. Just saying...

[Beregorn]

Now, if only she put the same effort in pronouncing "Schiaparelli" correctly...

[itsulie]

Honestly the way she can't pronounce the names correctly takes me from the fantasy.

[complimentary_voucher]

Ummm.... any other sewists and art history people out there scratching their heads at this fairly garbage presentation? I know most curator hires are cronyist/nepotistic these days, but man, these videos are really showing the arse of that process. I'm surprised they're happy to do them, because if this was my level of expertise in a paid position, I'd keep that on the down low.