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and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left
the original illustration for this ‘Polupus’ is from Conrad Gessner’s ‘Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum’
by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678
full of shiny rayon fibres
Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey Elephant and the skirt is constructedThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a cocktail dress created by Charles James in 1949; the original, in blue grey silk, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 200). My first version of this cocktail dress used a black paper patterned with gold; Ive since become much more obsessed with using paper that evokes the original fabric. This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer. Charles James is considered by
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