Dress #108: Charles James evening dress in black and turquoise Anteater The dress is made from

The dress is made from mauve Japanese Ajisai paper

including evening dresses

or using custom dress forms that combined the measurements of his customer with the fanciful contours used to sculpt the dresses into the desired shapes

and is considered by the Met to be the ‘only American to work in the true couture tradition’

Dress #108: Charles James evening dress in black and turquoise Anteater The dress is made fromThis hand stitched paper dress is based on an evening dress created by Charles James in ca. 1955; the original, in black velvet and blue green satin, is held by the Museum at FIT (accession 91. 241. 132). The most striking feature of the dress is a three foot long metal zipper that spirals around the gown. With only a low resolution image to work from, I couldnt identify the path of the zipper, but its there, somewhere! Ive chosen a Nepalese Lokta