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Dress #117: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Bison Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper

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Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

This darling little pinup dress is made from Tibetan lokta paper in a golden fish pattern on a bright blue background

until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty-looking) specimen in the 1918 book ‘Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom’

The original shoe is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1980

They can be found happily hanging out (though you wouldn’t know it to look at them) in shallow lagoons

Dress #117: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Bison Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paperThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952 1954 as a sample for New York ready to wear manufacturer Samuel Winston; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013. 341). That relationship eventually ended in a lawsuit for breach of contract, as James was convinced that Winston was stealing his designs for one of his other labels, without crediting James. James

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