Knitted Circles
Evening Dress
1969 (designed)
1969 (designed)
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Screen-printed silk chiffon evening dress in 'Knitted Circle' and 'Diamonds and Roses' textile prints.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Screen-printed silk chiffon |
| Brief description | Evening dress, screen-printed silk chiffon, designed by Zandra Rhodes, London, 1969. |
| Physical description | Screen-printed silk chiffon evening dress in 'Knitted Circle' and 'Diamonds and Roses' textile prints. |
| Credit line | Given by Lesley Astaire |
| Object history | This particular dress is Butterfly No 11, cat no Z6 as depicted in Rhodes' 1984 autobiography (1984). A photograph of the dress being modelled by Oxana Prystay in a David Bailey photograph from Vogue, 1969, appears on page 25. Oxana's identical twin sister, Myroslava, is wearing a hooded version of another dress in the V&A collection (see T.375-1974) Reference: Rhodes, Zandra and Knight, Anne, The Art Of Zandra Rhodes, London, 1984 Registered File number 1993/879. |
| Other number | Z6 - design number |
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| Accession number | T.223-1993 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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