Neckpiece
1996 (made)
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V-neck t-shirts and 1930s bias-cut evening dresses inspired this intricately knitted evening dress with semi-circular train. The designer, Julien MacDonald, creates ingenious and highly complex knitted garments. This dress, for example, took him three weeks to make. It is intended to be worn with only a pair of black lace pants.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Feather quills and beads |
| Brief description | Neckpiece of feather quills and jet beads, designed by Eric Haley for Julien MacDonald, Great Britain, 1996 |
| Physical description | Neckpiece of black feather quills and jet beads. |
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| Credit line | Given by the designer |
| Object history | Part of an outfit with dress T.24:1-1997. |
| Summary | V-neck t-shirts and 1930s bias-cut evening dresses inspired this intricately knitted evening dress with semi-circular train. The designer, Julien MacDonald, creates ingenious and highly complex knitted garments. This dress, for example, took him three weeks to make. It is intended to be worn with only a pair of black lace pants. |
| Associated object | T.24:1-1997 (Ensemble) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.24:2-1997 |
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| Record created | May 4, 2011 |
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