Dress #117: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Octopus held by the Hillwood Museum

held by the Hillwood Museum (accession 48

Korean hanji

it was made by royal tailors J

which I’ve replicated with a metallic hemp & silk tissue

These chanterelles are identified as poisonous 'Cantharellus aurantiacus' (aka the False Chanterelle)

Dress #117: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Octopus held by the Hillwood MuseumThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952 1954 as a sample for New York ready to wear manufacturer Samuel Winston; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013. 341). That relationship eventually ended in a lawsuit for breach of contract, as James was convinced that Winston was stealing his designs for one of his other labels, without crediting James. James