Dress
2016 (designed)
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Sarah Burton is an English fashion designer and creative director at British fashion house Alexander McQueen.
Burton designed this dress for her Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection. She was inspired by the Huguenot silk weavers who fled to England from France following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nates. Burton featured flowers heavily in her designs for the collection, remarking, ‘I loved the stories of how they [the Huguenots] arrived with very little, bringing seeds and bulbs in their pockets to grow. They were gardeners. And they wove their French flowers into the patterns on their silks.’
The dress is Look 23 from the catwalk presentation. The textile design is very similar to the style of silks which were fashionable in England between 1745 and 1765, with a dominant plain white ground decorated with badges of flowers, brocaded onto the ground in lines (see T.17-1970). These silks were woven in England, often in Spitalfields, London, where many of the Huguenot silk weavers are known to have worked.
Burton designed this dress for her Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection. She was inspired by the Huguenot silk weavers who fled to England from France following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nates. Burton featured flowers heavily in her designs for the collection, remarking, ‘I loved the stories of how they [the Huguenots] arrived with very little, bringing seeds and bulbs in their pockets to grow. They were gardeners. And they wove their French flowers into the patterns on their silks.’
The dress is Look 23 from the catwalk presentation. The textile design is very similar to the style of silks which were fashionable in England between 1745 and 1765, with a dominant plain white ground decorated with badges of flowers, brocaded onto the ground in lines (see T.17-1970). These silks were woven in England, often in Spitalfields, London, where many of the Huguenot silk weavers are known to have worked.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Brocaded, synthetic textile with silk brocade |
| Brief description | Evening dress, designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, London, Spring 2016 collection |
| Physical description | Cream dress with woven (brocaded) coloured floral design, unlined. The dress has a closed skirt which fastens at the waist with two plastic poppers. The bodice has a tight-back and is open at the front. The robings extend to the waist and there are two straps on each side of the bodice. The straps fasten across the front with a self covered button and buttonhole. A stomacher front has been sewn in behind the robings and straps, it fastens with a hook and eye closure. The dress has elbow-length sleeves which are narrow at the cuff. |
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| Credit line | V&A Americas Foundation through the generosity of Christine Suppes |
| Summary | Sarah Burton is an English fashion designer and creative director at British fashion house Alexander McQueen. Burton designed this dress for her Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection. She was inspired by the Huguenot silk weavers who fled to England from France following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nates. Burton featured flowers heavily in her designs for the collection, remarking, ‘I loved the stories of how they [the Huguenots] arrived with very little, bringing seeds and bulbs in their pockets to grow. They were gardeners. And they wove their French flowers into the patterns on their silks.’ The dress is Look 23 from the catwalk presentation. The textile design is very similar to the style of silks which were fashionable in England between 1745 and 1765, with a dominant plain white ground decorated with badges of flowers, brocaded onto the ground in lines (see T.17-1970). These silks were woven in England, often in Spitalfields, London, where many of the Huguenot silk weavers are known to have worked. |
| Associated object | T.45-2023 (Ensemble) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.44-2023 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2019 |
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