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5 months

On #InternationalWomensDay let us celebrate The Red Dress Project conceived by artist Kirstie Macleod. Between 2009 and 2023, 380 embroiderers from 51 countries, many of whom were vulnerable, told their personal stories through embroidery on burgundy silk dupion #WomensArt #dress

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American actress Natalie Wood was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She was photographed by Steve Schapiro in 1966, wearing Armold Scaasi's black cocktail dress, consisting of a silk plain weave underdress and a synthetic net overdress with rayon bows. @mfaboston #actress #fashion

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#InternationalChessDay is celebrated annually #OnThisDay . Anya Taylor-Joy wore this Gabriele Binder designed green and black 1960s-style crepe dress with bow detail to portray chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit (2020). Dress exhibited @brooklynmuseum . #chess #dress

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The opening of Sargent and Fashion at the @Tate is only 5 weeks away! I first heard about this exhibition 5 years ago when Ellen Terry's iconic 'Beetle Wing Dress', designed by Alice Comyns-Carr, was in the ZTC studio for conservation. Who else is excited? #SargentAndFashion

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Jim Henson's fantasy film Labyrinth was released in America #OnThisDay in 1986. Jennifer Connelly wore this Brian Froud and Ellis Flyte designed iridescent cellophane and synthetic lace Goblin Queen ballgown as Sarah in the film. Exhibited @MovingImageNYC . #film #costume #dress

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English fashion designer Ossie Clark was born #OnThisDay in 1942. He designed this off-white silk crinkle chiffon dress with handkerchief points at the cuffs and hem, printed with a Celia Birtwell designed pattern of a shamrock vine. @museumatFIT collection #dress #Fashionhistory

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American burlesque entertainer, actress, and author, Gypsy Rose Lee, was born #OnThisDay in 1911. She was photographed modelling Charles James' brown silk chiffon and tulle Swan evening dress at a benefit fashion show in 1955. Dress @ChicagoMuseum collection. #dress #burlesque

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Day 6 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is a true piece of Hollywood glamour! This silver lamé evening gown was designed by Travis Banton at Paramount for actress Mary Ellis to wear in the 1935 film, Paris in Spring. Exhibited at @mfaboston . #1930sfashion

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Princess Diana attended a dinner hosted by Vanity Fair at the Serpentine Gallery #OnThisDay in 1994. She chose to wear a Christina Stambolian off-the-shoulder black silk damask dress with diagonally swathed chiffon skirt, now known as the 'Revenge' dress. #PrincessDiana #dress

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Legendary French fashion designer Christian Dior was born #OnThisDay in 1905. This black silk ottoman strapless dress, called Sonnet, was designed as part of Dior's A/W 1952 Profilée line. The skirt is emphasised by satin piping and rouleaux bows. @1stDibs #Dior #fashiondesigner

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2 years

Day 22 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this c. 1865 belted gold silk and tulle ballgown from the Wien Museum collection. The gown is embellished with straw embroidery, and reminds me of Princess Margaret's 21st birthday dress designed by Christian Dior. #dresshistory

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6 months

The opening of Sargent and Fashion at the @Tate is only 2 weeks away! Sargent painted this 1887 portrait of Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) wearing a red silk velvet evening dress that was later altered in 1902. Painting and dress @mfaboston collection #SargentAndFashion

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Award-winning British actress Dame Maggie Smith was born #OnThisDay in 1934. She wore this Anthony Powell designed red and white polka dot trouser suit as Daphne Castle in the 1982 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun. #film #costume #dress

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This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this striking Balenciaga black and ivory satin evening gown, dating to 1939. The dress features a fitted body finished with a scoop neckline and rolled collar with rounded profiles. @museobalenciaga collection. #Balenciaga #fashionhistory

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2 years

Day 19 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is as light as a snowflake! This whiite silk Balmain couture evening dress, designed by Oscar de la Renta for S/S 2001, is embellished with Lesage embroidery, heavy crystal beading and feathers. From the @metmuseum . #dresshistory

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Day 9 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this sparkly c. 1937-39 evening gown made from three layers of silk tulle over a synthetic rayon base. The tulle is decorated with applied silver sequins that form a foliate design. @ChertseyMuseum collection. #1930sfashion

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1 year

🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day 🍀Charles James designed this sculptural emerald-green silk satin ball gown in 1954, an adaptation of his Four-Leaf Clover ball gown. If only I had a party to attend in this beauty! From the @metmuseum collection. #stpatricksday2023 #dress #fashion

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Scottish landscape and portrait painter Sir Herbert James Gunn was born #OnThisDay in 1893. Starting with Pauline in the Yellow Dress (1944) from @HarrisPreston , this 🧵 will explore some of my favourite depictions of fashion in Gunn's portraits. #art #FashionHistory

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Actress and humanitarian Dame Elizabeth Taylor was born #OnThisDay in 1932. She wore this Edith Head designed periwinkle blue and violet faillecrepe evening dress, with an asymmetrical double flounce from the waistline, to the 1970 Academy Awards. @AcademyMuseum #actress #dress

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7 months

Day 22 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this elegant silk satin evening dress, dating from c. 1937, that is hand-embroidered with glass beads and artificial diamonds. The dress belonged to the fashionable Queen Maud of Norway. @nasjonalmuseet #1930sfashion

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2 years

Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake had its world premiere, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet, #OnThisDay in 1877. This c. 1951 black silk tulle and sequin evening dress, designed by Howard Greer, was inspired by the character of Odile, the Black Swan. #SwanLake #ballet #dress

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Queen Alexandra was born #OnThisDay in 1844. She was an accomplished horse rider, and this fabulous 18th-century inspired embroidered silk velvet riding coat with lace jabot was made for Alexandra by Morin Blossier in c. 1902. @metmuseum #Royals #dress

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English singer and musician Adam Ant, born Stuart Leslie Goddard, was born #OnThisDay in 1954. He designed the iconic historical-inspired costume that he wore in the 1981 Prince Charming music video. The jacket was made by Dave Whiting. @V_and_A collection #music #fashion

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2 years

RIP Dame Vivienne Westwood. I have always admired the provocative and historical influences in Westwood's designs, such as her 1996 silk faille Watteau evening dress that looked at the construction of 18th C. sack dresses through a contemporary lens. @V_and_A #VivienneWestwood

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6 months

Today's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this beautiful silk floor-length Lanvin dress dating to 1937. It is embellished with appliqué flowers in different shades of pink and a black ribbon bow tied to the side of the waist. From the @metmuseum collection. #dresshistory

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7 months

After the success of my 1930s #AdventCalendar , I thought I'd carry on the theme with my new #ThirtiesThursdays . This c. 1936-38 Madeleine Vionnet silk chiffon halter evening gown with embroidered bodice is in the @museumatFIT collection. #dresshistory

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British actress Tilda Swinton was born #OnThisDay in 1960. She wore this Sandy Powell designed black doublet and matching hose, with a cross hatch pattern in black velvet, trimmed with gold tassels, in Orlando (1992). Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design. #film #costume

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This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this stunning aquamarine chiffon evening dress designed by Jean-Charles Worth in c. 1928. The gown features a Chinese-inspired printed floral pattern in shades of lilac, orange, and gold, outlined with sequins. @V_and_A #fashionhistory

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8 months

Day 19 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is a c. 1931 House of Worth silk tulle evening dress, densely embroidered with silver glass bugle beads that extend into deep layers of fringe and are worked into intricate braids at the shoulders. @metmuseum collection #1930sfashion

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1 year

Spanish fashion designer Mariano Fortuny, who opened his couture house in 1906, was born #OnThisDay in 1871. He designed this silk Pelpos gown, a variation of his popular Delphos gown, embellished with small Venetian glass beads. @metmuseum collection. #fashiondesigner #dress

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Christian Dior presented his first fashion collection #OnThisDay in 1947. Dubbed the "New Look", this silk "Chérie" dress exemplified the "New Look" elements with its narrow waist, and volume of skirt falling from a padded hipline to below the calf. From @metmuseum . #Dior #dress

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2 years

English ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, was born #OnThisDay in 1919. Fonteyn owned and wore Christian Dior's blue sequined tulle 'Debussy' evening dress, dating from 1950. Dress from the @Fashion_Museum collections. #ballerina #Dior #dress

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American artist John Singer Sargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856. He painted this 1903 portrait of Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch wearing a white and blue silk chiffon and lace evening dress designed by Callot Sœurs. @joslynartmuseum collection. #SargentAndFashion #art #dress

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British fashion designer Sir Norman Hartnell was born #OnThisDay in 1901. He designed this c. 1953 couture ivory and turquoise faille ball gown embellished with droplet and floret beads. Barbara Goalen was photographed modelling a similar dress. @KerryTaylorAuct #FashionHistory

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Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was born #OnThisDay in 1862. He painted Portrait of a Lady in Black in 1894, which is the same year that Stern Brothers sold this sumptuous silk velvet evening dress with sequin embroidery. Painting @belvederemuseum and dress @V_and_A . #art #dress

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British actress Vanessa Kirby was born #OnThisDay in 1988. She wore this Michele Clapton designed belted silk gown (with pockets) to portray Princess Margaret in season one of The Crown. The dress is embellished with sequins and beads. #actress #dress #TheCrown

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Actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn was born #OnThisDay in 1929. She wore this Givenchy haute couture white point d'esprit ball gown, with the upper bodice edged with embroidered scalloped lace, as Ariane in Love in the Afternoon (1956). @KerryTaylorAuct #film #costume #dress

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Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli was born #OnThisDay in 1940. He designed this floor-length evening dress of chiffon, printed with a black and yellow symmetrical pattern of stripes, for his 2007 ready-to-wear collection. @V_and_A collection #fashiondesigner #dress

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Award-winning Japanese art director and costume designer Eiko Ishioka was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She designed the cream duchess silk satin wedding dress, with petals and vine tendrils, that Julia Roberts wore as Queen Clementianna in Mirror Mirror (2012). #film #costume #dress

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1 year

Louise of the Netherlands, Queen of Sweden and Norway, was born #OnThisDay in 1828. She wore this embroidered silver woven silk gown with tulle sleeves to marry King Karl XV on June 19, 1850, in Stockholm Cathedral. From the @Livrustkammaren collection. #royal #wedding #dress

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5 months

It makes me sad that #Fashionhistory as a discipline can still be treated so badly. The bi-line of 'Sargent’s gloriously rich and subtle paintings can’t be reduced to dreary facts about hats, dresses and opera gowns' tells you the view of this writer.

Sargent and Fashion review – tragicomic travesty is a frock horror

Sargent’s gloriously rich and subtle paintings can’t be reduced to dreary facts about hats, dresses and opera gowns. Sadly, that’s just what’s happened

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9 months

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 Alexander McQueen designed this velvet and satin evening dress embellished with a starburst in hand-sewn, iridescent gunmetal-gray bugle beads, for his A/W 2007 collection, 'In memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692.' Peabody Essex Museum. #Halloween #dress

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2 years

Day 12 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this c.1953 Jean Dessès full-length red strapless evening dress of red silk chiffon, that features Dessès's virtuoso pleating technique on the bodice that is supported by integral boning. From the @V_and_A collection #dresshistory

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7 months

Day 24 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this c. 1936-38 Mainbocher Modes purple satin-backed crepe evening dress, embellished with bands of alternating embroidery and deep fringing from the bust to the hem in silver blue silk cord. @mcrartgallery collection #1930sfashion

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Jacqueline Bouvier wed John F. Kennedy #OnThisDay in 1953. Her ivory-colored silk taffeta wedding dress with portrait neckline, featured interwoven tucking bands and tiny wax flowers on the skirt, and was created by the African-American fashion designer Ann Lowe. #wedding #dress

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2 years

Day 23 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this stunning Callot Soeurs electric blue satin evening gown, adorned with a mesh overlay of Egyptian inspired iridescent sequins, glass beads and jewels, dating from 1909. From the @greggmuseum collection. #dresshistory

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Socialite Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan was born #OnThisDay in 1877. This c. 1907 beaded gown of black net with lace inserts over pale blue chiffon and satin, attributed to Callot Soeurs, belonged to Consuelo when she was Duchess of Marlborough. Charles A. Whitaker Auction #dress

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Day 8 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this Edward Molyneux designed lime green evening dress featuring a layer of Leavers machine-made silk lace embellished with sequins and bugle beads. The dress belonged to Helen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland @Fashion_Museum #1930sfashion

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2 years

Day 18 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this red wool Biba maxi coat, with an asymmetrical fastening of 11 plastic buttons, that was purchased in 1969. Mrs. Claus would definitely rock this look! From the @mcrartgallery collection. #dresshistory

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#MrsHarrisGoesToParis is the perfect film to curl up with at this time of year. Costume designer Jenny Beavan was inspired by Christian Dior's Miss Dior cocktail dress, from his S/S 1949 collection, for the Ravissante dress that Mrs. Harris falls in love with. #film #dress #Dior

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Canadian-born American actress Katharine DeMille was born #OnThisDay in 1911. She wore this Travis Banton designed period gown of black silk crêpe with matching cape embroidered with gold and silver bullion, as Princess Alice of France in The Crusades (1935) #film #costume #dress

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Day 3 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this Winter 1935/36 Lanvin green silk dress trimmed with gilt leather appliqué. Extra divided lengths of silk have been turned back at the hemline to simulate fashionable harem trousers. @mfaboston collection. #1930sfashion

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English actress Keira Knightley was born #OnThisDay in 1985. She wore this now iconic emerald-green silk satin backless evening dress, designed by Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran, as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement (2007). #film #costume #dress

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Gibraltarian-Spanish #fashiondesigner John Galliano was born #OnThisDay in 1960. He designed this tulle evening gown, embroidered with Swarovski crystals, for Dior's Haute Couture A/W 2005 collection. It was named 'Madeleine' in homage to Christian Dior's mother. #DIOR #dress

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Award-winning American actress Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, was born #OnThisDay in 1929. She wore this Helen Rose designed blue and white striped silk dress, with full-skirt and bows on the bodice and waist, as socialite Tracy Lord in High Society (1956) #film #costume #dress

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Spanish fashion designer Mariano Fortuny was born #OnThisDay in 1871. Miss Muriel Gore chose to be painted by Oswald Birley in 1919 wearing a silver Fortuny dress that is very similar in style to this satin Robe du soir from the collection of @madparisfr . #fashionhistory #dress

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Musician, singer, and songwriter George Harrison was born #OnThisDay in 1943. He owned and wore this William Morris Golden Lily print jacket by Granny Takes a Trip in the 1960s. Displayed in the @FashionTextile 's Beautiful People exhibition. #TheBeatles #Mensfashion

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French fashion designer Pierre Balmain was born #OnThisDay in 1914. He designed this fabulous evening ensemble consisting of a gold sequin strapless dress embellished with star motifs and matching gold coat with red lining in 1952. @madparisfr collection #fashiondesigner #BALMAIN

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30Dancer, actress, and singer Lena Horne was born #OnThisDay in 1917. She owned and wore this 1930s-inspired Giorgio di Sant'Angelo grey polyester jersey dress with purple accents in the 1970s. Horne donated the dress to the @KSUMuseum collection. #fashionhistory #dress

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The late fashion designer and activist Dame Vivienne Westwood was born #OnThisDay in 1941. She designed this corseted Bird of Paradise wedding dress in purple shot synthetic taffeta for bride Dita von Teese when she married Marilyn Manson in 2005 #wedding #dress #VivienneWestwood

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Anthony Powell won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Death On The Nile #OnThisDay in 1979. He designed this bias cut halter-neck evening dress of eau-de-nil silk, embellished with bugle beads, for Lois Chiles as Linnet Ridgeway. @ChristiesInc #film #costume #dress

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American photographer, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, was born #OnThisDay in 1895. She photographed a model in Paris wearing Christian Dior's A/W 1947 black wool and green silk Mystère coat for the November 1947 edition of Harper’s Bazaar. Coat from @metmuseum #fashionphotography #Dior #coat

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Day 5 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this red lace ballgown with chenille embroidery and layered tulle underskirts in red and pink, designed by Angele Delanghe in 1953, that has the suitably festive name of 'Ponsietta'. From the @V_and_A collection. #dresshistory

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Florence Nightingale Graham, who used the business name @ElizabethArden , was born #OnThisDay in 1878. This velvet and tulle evening dress, owned by Marlene Dietrich, was designed by Ferdinando Sarmi in 1951 for the Elizabeth Arden Elegance label. @de_kinemathek #fashion #dress

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Day 2 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is a surrealist creation by the great Elsa Schiaparelli. This 1938 ivory satin brocade evening coat is printed with blue butterflies, an insect that represented metamorphosis for the surrealists. @museumatFIT collection. #1930sfashion

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2 years

🎆 Happy New Year 🎆 Ring out the old, ring in the new! I am going to say goodbye to 2022 and embrace 2023 in Halston's sheer sequin fireworks ensemble from his Fall 1980 collection. @FIDMMuseum collection. #NewYear #happyNewYear2023

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Award-winning American costume designer Edith Head was born #OnThisDay in 1897. She designed this elegant linen dressing gown with hand-cut and sewn black wool felt motifs that actress Veronica Lake chose to wear for a 1942 publicity photograph. #film #costume #dress

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Actress Vivien Leigh was born #OnThisDay in 1913. She wore this Roger Furse designed green velvet gown, with hand-painted breasts and stomach on the bodice, as Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a 1955 production of Macbeth at Stratford. @TheRSC collection. #theatre #dress

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“Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant.” Fabulous letter from Cally Blackman in response to that awful @guardian review of the @Tate 's Sargent and Fashion. #Fashionhistory #exhibition

Throw off the cloak of snobbery and treat fashion as a serious art form | Letter

Letter: Cally Blackman takes issue with a ‘dismissive’ review of the John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain

www.theguardian.com

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Day 9 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is pure glamour. This c. 1953 black silk and velvet haute couture ballgown was designed by John Cavanagh for Lady Alice Makins, the wife of the British Ambassador in Washington in the 1950s. From the @V_and_A collection. #dresshistory

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Day 3 of my Christmas costume #AdventCalendar is this Azzedine Alaïa haute couture gown from his S/S 1997 collection. Alaïa was an admirer of Madeleine Vionnet and the bias cut in the red chiffon and twisted fabric on the bust are all tributes to her @PalaisGalliera #dresshistory

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First up is this champagne-coloured one-shoulder gown, with black sequin flower motif, that Michele Clapton designed for Lia Williams as Wallis Simpson in Episode 5, Season 1 of The Crown. Bidding now open at @bonhams1793 . #TheCrown #costume #dress

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Fashion designer and activist Dame Vivienne Westwood was born #OnThisDay in 1941. She designed this burgundy silk chiffon and silk taffeta evening gown for her Storm in a Teacup A/W 1996/7 collection. From the collection of the model Tatiana Sorokko. #fashiondesigner #dress

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Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle #OnThisDay in 2017. Meghan wore a P.A.R.O.S.H fitted crew-neck dress in double stretch wool crêpe with a bow on the waist to meet the press at Kensington Palace. The style was later reissued as 'The Megan'. #Royals #fashion

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British fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, who worked under the professional name Lucile, was born #OnThisDay in 1863. She designed this evening dress of pink silk and silver damask, trimmed with fabric flowers and pink tulle ribbon, in c. 1918. @KSUMuseum #FashionHistory

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French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier was born #OnThisDay in 1943. He photographed model Natalia Vodianova in 2011 wearing Christian Dior's embroidered 'Edith' strapless dress from his S/S 1953 'Tulip' line haute couture collection. @Dior #fashionphotography #dress

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American socialite and philanthropist Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller was born #OnThisDay in 1874. She owned and wore this early 20th century evening gown, made in part from a blue and gold silk Indian sari, with a blue satin slip underneath. @mfaboston collection. #dress #fashion

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English fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen was born #OnThisDay in 1969. He designed this silk lace, tulle, and organza, peacock dress for his A/W 2008-09 "The Girl Who Lived in the Tree" collection. @FIDMMuseum collection #fashiondesigner #dress #AlexanderMcQueen

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French fashion model Simone Micheline Bodin, known professionally as Bettina Graziani, was born #OnThisDay in 1925. She modelled Jacques Fath's "Red Shoes" satin ensemble in a photograph by Irving Penn for the September 1950 issue of Vogue. @MuseodelTraje #model #fashion #dress

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Day 14 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is possibly the ultimate 1930s Christmas dress - Adrian's costume design for Joan Crawford in The Bride Wore Red (1937)! Made from red bugle bead pavé on silk crepe, the bias-cut dress has a matching capelet. @museumatFIT #1930sfashion

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6 months

❤️ Happy Valentines Day ❤️ This romantic c. 1837 red silk moiré dress would make the perfect evening dress for a Gothic novel heroine! From the @metmuseum collection. #Fashionhistory #ValentinesDay

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9 months

English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth was born #OnThisDay in 1825. This elegant Worth floral maroon and pink brocaded satin tea gown, trimmed with Valenciennes lace, was made in c. 1890-95. From the @ROMtoronto collection. #fashiondesigner #dress

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French fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet was born #OnThisDay in 1876. She designed this evening dress consisting of a gold lamé underdress over which sits a cream net dress with an applied black chiffon pattern, held in place by gold lamé ribbons. @V_and_A #fashionhistory #dress

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The ballet La Sylphide premiered at the Opéra de Paris #OnThisDay in 1832. Dancer Marie Taglioni wore a diaphanous dress in the first version, very like this one in the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater & Music, that became the prototype of the tutu. #ballet #dance #dress

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8 months

Queen Maud of Norway, the wife of King Haakon VII, was born #OnThisDay in 1869. She owned and wore this elegant deep purple silk satin evening gown, with embellished lace and tulle overlay in c. 1910-13. From the @nasjonalmuseet collection. #Royals #dress #fashion

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2 years

Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones wed Daniel Chatto #OnThisDay in 1994 at St Stephen Walbrook, London. The bride wore a wedding dress designed by Jasper Conran accessorised with the Snowdon Floral Tiara, made out of three brooches, which secured her veil. #Royals #wedding #dress

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1 year

Writer, illustrator, and conservationist Beatrix Potter was born #OnThisDay in 1866. Potter copied details from this man's 1780s embroidered silk court waistcoat, from the @V_and_A collections, for illustrations for her book The Tailor of Gloucester. #author #illustration #dress

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English actress Michelle Dockery was born #OnThisDay in 1981. She wore this Susannah Buxton designed red silk and silk chiffon evening gown, with applied silk folk motifs on the bodice, as Lady Mary Crawley in season 2 of Downton Abbey. Made by @CospropLtd . #downtonabbey #dress

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5 months

Today's #ThirtiesThursday garment is a black silk crepe evening gown designed by Elsa Schiaparelli for Fall 1938. The dress was embroidered with leaves and flowers in coloured silk threads and decorated with plastic sequins by Maison Lesage. @philamuseum collection #dresshistory

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@vickyhaddock

2 years

American actress and fashion icon, Anna May Wong, was born in Los Angeles #OnThisDay in 1905. She wore this Travis Banton designed bias-cut, black satin evening gown, with peonies embroidered on the shoulders, in 1934. From the @mfaboston collections. #film #costume #dress #1930s

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1 year

Award-winning Japanese art director and costume designer Eiko Ishioka was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She designed this mint green silk bustle gown for Winona Ryder to wear as Mina Murray in the 1992 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. #film #costume #dress

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Reece Witherspoon won the Best Actress Academy Award at the Oscars #OnThisDay in 2006 for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. She wore this 1957 Christian Dior gown, that she purchased at a vintage store in Paris, to the ceremony. #Oscars #Dior #dress

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The Regency period saw many changes in women and men's fashions. Historicism in dress, such as the puffed sleeves in this @metmuseum ball gown, were popular. Make sure to grab your tickets for my afternoon course on Regency dress at @RAMMuseum ! …

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5 months

Today's #TwentiesTuesday garment is Jeanne Lanvin's 'Roseraie' silk dress, dating from her S/S 1923 collection. Lanvin's ability to manipulate applied ribbonwork is on display in this dress, with ribbon flower head designs being used to great effect. @metmuseum #dresshistory

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@vickyhaddock

5 months

Marjorie Merriweather Post's black silk charmeuse Bergdorf Gooodman evening gown is this week's #TwentiesTuesday dress. Dating to 1929 and encrusted with punched rhinestones, it features a tulle skirt with a bow decorated with rhinestones and beads. @HillwoodMuseum #dresshistory

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This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this c. 1938 Norman Hartnell couture evening gown. Made from illusion tulle, the dress is entirely covered with a swirling motif of gold sequins and miniscule seed beads. Sold by @KerryTaylorAuct . #fashionhistory

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Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, was born #OnThisDay in 1920. She owned this S/S 1953 Schiaparelli evening dress of organza over a shocking pink silk underdress. In her biography, Debo states that Cecil Beaton borrowed the dress for @V_and_A and never gave it back! #Mitford #dress

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@vickyhaddock

8 months

Day 16 of my Christmas #AdventCalendar is this Madeleine Vionnet evening dress crafted from organza and fine tulle, dating from 1935. The bodice fastens with a row of diamanté bow brooches, and the skirt is decorated with appliquéd velvet swallow motifs. @V_and_A #1930sfashion

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9 months

Marie Antoinette was born #OnThisDay in 1755. Kirsten Dunst wore this flounced cotton-and-silk couture pannier dress, made for her by Olivier Theyskens for Rochas, in a Vogue photoshoot to promote Sofia Coppola's 2006 film, Marie Antoninette. @PalaisGalliera #film #costume #dress

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French fashion designer Pierre Balmain was born #OnThisDay in 1914. He designed this exquisite hand-embroidered ballgown, with a custom Islamic-inspired floral motif with meandering vines, for his A/W 1953-54 collection. @NewfieldsToday collection #Balmain #dress #fashiondesigner

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