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Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood is one of the most influential British fashion designers of the 20th century. She began her career in the early 1970s, working with Malcolm McLaren from...
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Curator's Note
From Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring/Summer 1996 Cyberbaba collection, this dress features the designer's iconic skeleton print, which appeared on the Spring/Summer 1996 runway. Variations of the skeleton motif were later worn by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, while a dress in the same style was worn by Kendall Jenner.
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Very good
This has been well-preserved. Any imperfections are negligible and do not detract from the item's overall appearance or functionality.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier is a French fashion designer who launched his label in Paris in 1976, having begun his career as an assistant to Pierre Cardin. Dubbed the enfant terrible of French fashion, he built his aesthetic around subcultures the mainstream of fashion ignored, including the biker, the fetishist and the punk, and made the Breton sailor stripe a recurring signature of his own French heritage. He brought corsetry and lingerie onto the runway as structural elements and introduced men's skirts in 1984. The cone bra corset, which first appeared in his Spring/Summer 1989 collection, became globally recognised when Madonna wore it on the Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990. He presented his final haute couture show in 2020.
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The same skeleton print was featured on the Spring - Summer 1996 runway; A dress with similar skeleton print was famously worn by Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker), the protagonist of Sex and the City
The same style dress in a different colour was seen on Kendall Jenner
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