By Alexander McQueen
Collection : Fall Winter 1998
Black and white fitted jacket entirely embroidered with translucent sequins, transforming a photographic portrait into a shifting, reflective surface.
High stand collar, clean zip closure and precise panelled construction frame the image, while the dense handwork gives the piece an almost liquid depth and luminosity.
« Information on the web often wrongly identifies this print as a photograph of three of the five Romanov children of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. The Bolsheviks tragically murdered the entire family in 1918, in the wake of the Russian revolution.
However, the blurred image of the children on the dress print is not that of the Romanov children. It would seem that McQueen borrowed the image of three unknown girls and combined it on a Chinese-style dress, along with the tragic story of the murdered Russian Grand Duchesses for dramatic effect on the catwalk.
McQueen copied the image from an 1845 daguerreotype (an early photographic process) by Carm Gustav Oehme, titled Three Little Girls, the original of which is kept in the National Gallery of Canada. »
Source : https://www.magnetmanchester.org/alexander-mcqueen-and-the-romanovs-rita
- Size : 36 FR
- Material :
- Made in Italy
