Dress
Fashion designers’ lengthy captivation with the female body is indisputable. Throughout history clothing has often served to constrain, exaggerate, reshape, appropriate, subvert, and graft a host of concepts and cultural ideals onto women wearers and garments alike. Yet, within this trajectory of shifting values and constant redefinition, rarely if ever, is the female body depicted as muscular, strong, and imposing in the same manner that the male body is treated. This dress from the Collina Strada autumn/winter 2024–25 "Stronger" collection upends this convention, presenting a virile silhouette sculpted from layers of vegetable-dyed crinkle chiffon polyester that form a pair of brawny puffed sleeves flanking a slim ruched gown with train. The paradox of ethereal fraying textiles and the bulk amassed in their layering is echoed in a silhouette that is at once understated and hyperbolic, elegant and subversive, quotidian and jarring.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Design House: Collina Strada (American, founded 2008)
- Designer: Hillary Taymour (American, born 1987)
- Date: fall/winter 2024–25
- Culture: American
- Medium: polyester, acetate, rayon
- Credit Line: Purchase, Miss Olivia C. Sandelman Fund, 2025
- Object Number: 2025.306
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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