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Knitted Circle

Evening Dress
1969 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screen-printed silk chiffon evening dress with a hood.. Muted greenish-yellow chiffon printed with green and black 'Knitted Circle' print. Full skirt and exaggeratedly long bishop sleeves, the hood quite elongated and shallow with a pointed crown


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleKnitted Circle (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screen-printed silk chiffon
Brief description
Screen-printed silk chiffon evening dress, designed by Zandra Rhodes, London, 1969-1975
Physical description
Screen-printed silk chiffon evening dress with a hood.. Muted greenish-yellow chiffon printed with green and black 'Knitted Circle' print. Full skirt and exaggeratedly long bishop sleeves, the hood quite elongated and shallow with a pointed crown
Credit line
Given by Mrs Nora Simmons
Object history
This particular dress is Butterfly No 13 /cat no Z7 as depicted in Rhodes' 1984 autobiography.

Reference:
Rhodes, Zandra and Knight, Anne, The Art Of Zandra Rhodes, London, 1984

Registered File number 1992/931.
Associated object
T.358-1974 (Colourway)
Other number
Z7 - design number
Collection
Accession number
T.179-1992

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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