Why the dots?
Yayoi Kasuma, Japan’s 90-year-old queen of pattern, would say dots are fun. She’s spent a long career designing clothing, fabric, paintings and rooms that vibrate with dots.
Airy metal dresses.
Iris van Herpen’s lace metal dresses. Fannie Schiavoni’s winged dress. And more.
The woman who sewed glorious golden dresses for Gustav Klimt.
Emilie Floge—seamstress extraordinaire and Klimt’s life companion—sewed the mosaic-inspired dresses his models wore. Adele Bloch-Bauer is wearing one in this 1907 portrait.
Radical lace.
Lion statue covered in Joana Vascoucelos’ crocheted white lace. Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s lace collar. Tailored lace jacket by Mal Burkinshaw. And more.
Architects have the best costume parties.
1931 Beaux Arts Ball. Bauhaus costume from the Twenties. Telephone-wire costume.
Picasso loved a good statement necklace.
Picasso linocut Portrait of a Lady, 1963. Woman with Yellow Necklace, 1968. Nude with Necklace, 1968.