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John Galliano, London (fashion house)
John Galliano (designer)
Clam, dress 1987 {Blanche DuBois collection, spring-summer 1988}
organza
106.0 cm (centre back) 32.0 cm (waist, flat)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020
© Public domain
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Clam, dress
1987
Blanche DuBois collection, spring-summer 1988
Medium
organza
Measurements
106.0 cm (centre back) 32.0 cm (waist, flat)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020
© Public domain
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Named after the tragic fragile heroine of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Galliano describes his 1987 spring–summer collection as ‘being proper and [English]... the anonymity of beekeeping, the art of apiary’. The undulating organdie layers of Clam dress were inspired by a scrap of a 1950s magazine that Galliano found showing a tiered layered skirt. It became the finale of the show and was only made to special order. Only twenty-five were ever made.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
England
Inscription
label, centre back, woven in blue on burgundy polyester: John / Galliano / 1 / MADE IN BRITAIN
Accession Number
2020.606
Department
International Fashion and Textiles