Historical & Artisitic styles

1. American Underdress

American Underdress, ca. 1827. White cotton and broderie anglaise trim. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This underdress is poised between a period of classicism, with its columnar silhouette, and eclectic romanticism, with its burgeoning skirt forms. Made of plain white cotton with an applied hem of broderie anglaise, the dress has been trimmed with fine self-piping along the seamlines of its bodice. Originally catalogued as a finished dress because of its fully constructed sleeves and the fineness of its detailed workmanship, it was more likely intended to be worn under another dress of some transparency.

2. Memento Mori Necklace

Simon Costin. “Memento Mori” Necklace, 1986. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The necklace is a black synthetic tulle with jet-bead and rock-crystal embroidery, two bird claws, carved black wood beads, and three rabbit skulls with hematite eyes. Simon Costin inspired by decadent literature of the late nineteenth century. His used of taxidermy, seemingly retrieved from some obsessional collector’s cabinet, and his incorporation of materials evocative of the late Victorian cult of mourning are poised between poetic morbidity and necromantic glamour.

3. Chinese Garden

Designer-Philip Treacy for Alexander Macqueen, Spring 2005, Chinese Garden.

Philip Treacy’s hat is exquisite sculptures. His work is characterized by the virtuosity of his technique and imagination. This Chinese garden refers to the popularity of Chinoiserie in the eighteenth century and to the 1770s fashion for elaborate landscapes constructed in the topography of a woman’s heroically sculpted hair.

4. Crorodile Rock

Designer- John Galliano for Christain Dior , Spring/ Summmer 2003.

Red silk tulle with crocodile appliqué. In this garment, from his ready-to-wear collection at Christian Dior, Galliano inspired by the late 1920s, when the knee-baring chemise was transitioning into the bias cut languor of the 1930s.

5. YSL dress

Designer- Yves Saint Laurant, 2002 collection, Mondrain's artwork 1960s.

Yves Saint Laurant sack dress was inspired by Mondrain's artwork. He created the ideal field of color blocked. He was a master colorist, able to mix green, blue, rose and yellow in one outfit to achieve an effect that was artistic and never garish.

6. YSL dress

Yves Saint Laurent fashion headquarters, Paris in 2004. Photograph: JEAN-PIERRE MULLER/AFP/Getty Images

Yves Saint Laurent inspired this dress by Andy Warhol art, which is colorful and focusing on pop art. The dress is mix of violet contrasting with women shape in pink color like the Andy Warhol art.