The Skeleton Dress - Elsa Schiaparelli | Fashion unpicked | V&A

Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill as she examines Schiaparelli's uncanny evening dress, superimposed with the outline of skeletal bones.
Get closer than ever before and see how padding, zips, and quilting have been used to construct such an elegant yet surreal garment.
Find out more: www.vam.ac.uk/collections/els...

[@nanananananananana00]

the back of that dress is my favorite part, SO cool

[@Weesperbuurt]

Amazing work and imagination! Zips at the shoulders, lots of bones....although I have a bone and a seam to pick. The dress was actually made by highly-skilled seamstresses whose knowledge, experience, ingenuity, suggestions and trial and error were just as important but who were paid little and worked long hours. The unsung heroes of fashion.

[@scarletpimpernelagain9124]

Agree, Schiaparelli did not stitch any part of that dress and to ignore that just demonstrates that the curator may know her art history but has a very class ridden attitude towards it. Highly irritating.

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 or maybe they didn't know? 🤔

[@vs71597]

@@PolarBear-rc4ks 🙄 it’s literally her job to know. Of course she knows lmao

[@fighterflight]

@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 oh come on now when we speak of movies we speak about the Director. guess what? there are scores of people who work on a film including the screenwriter who actuality came up with the story that the director gets credit for. same with designers. no one thinks Zac Posen is sitting alone sewing the garments. but it’s his design.

[@lalafunnys]

SO happy to finally be able to see this dress in greater detail! I discussed this dress at length in one of my classes and was only really able to catch bits and pieces of this remarkable design from my internet sleuthing.

[@user-us6mx2nq3l]

I think it's fantastic. I adore such kind people who can create this🙂

[@fighterflight]

@@leonh67 ugh stop spamming. reported.

[@aldenpilongo6696]

i can see sasha velour wearing this

[@vamuseum]

What's your favourite spooky fashion garment?

[@willhouse]

I used to wear a vintage pea coat with a properly wiiide collar, & it always felt *great* to pop that up for a dose of good Nosferatu style... worked a treat on really cold nights to boot!

[@StellaMariaGiulia]

I love her so much 💖

[@fighterflight]

@@leonh67 this is NOT how you promote your channel. annoying people won’t get you views. what are you thinking.

[@AKing69]

Girlfriend was ahead of her time.

[@joelperezhernandez3458]

I love it

[@CosmicloverFilms]

Happy Halloween!

[@kathyjohnson2043]

zippers always remind me of backbones; I can't imagine a better dress to use them.

[@theonlygosha]

Someone should be allowed to do a photoshoot in this

[@desrankine1935]

Damn this person is damn talented

[@leylav9351]

Started watching this just to find the modern skeleton black dress CAUSE I WANT TO BUY IT

[@vixtex]

Morticia Addams

[@StellaMariaGiulia]

Actually it looks odd to us, but when zips came to be around the 30s were considered a novelty item and so they feature front and centre on more than one dainty dress!

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

@@leonh67 no

[@belkyb14]

🤩💯🙌

[@deancera]

nice extension of the construction of the human figure

[@hobbesfield1082]

Goth Gf..

[@mbfrezon]

Trapunto technique.

[@curiousworld7912]

I love Schiaparelli's designs, and I appreciate the art of Dali, but I have issues with his politics. Just saying...

[@scarletpimpernelagain9124]

You and me both! It’s odd to me how he could be brilliantly visually imaginative yet so lacking in empathy - high functioning autism perhaps? ( Rhetorical question NOT a statement) although I have yet to see this suggested anywhere in the literature.

[@curiousworld7912]

@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 I don't know - but I do know that he was, shall we say, a bit too supportive of fascist ideals, which Surrealism was a total rejection of.

[@Beregorn88]

Now, if only she put the same effort in pronouncing "Schiaparelli" correctly...

[@stardresser1]

That is how the name is pronounced. Always has been.

[@Beregorn88]

​@@stardresser1as an Italian I can guarantee you that it is not: what she is saying is "Scapareli", not "Schiaparelli"

[@itsulie]

Honestly the way she can't pronounce the names correctly takes me from the fantasy.

[@stardresser1]

She is. It is absolutely correct

[@complimentary_voucher]

Ummm.... any other sewists and art history people out there scratching their heads at this fairly garbage presentation? I know most curator hires are cronyist/nepotistic these days, but man, these videos are really showing the arse of that process. I'm surprised they're happy to do them, because if this was my level of expertise in a paid position, I'd keep that on the down low.