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Image: a female and male model photographed modelling outfits in a stone niche; the female model wears a dark floral brocade top with hanging sleeves and red ‘bumster’ trousers, the male model is crouching and wears a bright blue shiny suit

Dress of the Year 1996, Woman’s floral brocade top with hanging sleeves, worn with red ‘bumster’ trousers by Alexander McQueen.

 

Image: Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Antonio Baradi's Dress of the Year 2009 
Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Berardi’s Dress Of The Year, for the premiere of her film, Two Lovers in Paris in November 2008. Getty Images.

 

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Vionnet dresses

Thursday 11 February 2010

Alexander McQueen has sadly died in London at the age of 40. A former British Designer of the Year winner, Alexander McQueen started his career as an apprentice in Savile Row, where he learned how to make jackets at Gieves and Hawkes. The Fashion Museum has a collection of ensembles by the world-renowned designer, including the women's selection for the Dress of the Year 1996, pictured here.


Friday 5 February 2010
The Fashion Museum is proud to announce the Dress of the Year 2009. Lucy Yeomans, editor of the glossy fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, has chosen a dress designed by Antonio Berardi for the coveted title of Dress Of The Year.

View the press release here.

View BBC Points West film of the Dress of the year 2009

 

Gwyneth Paltrow wore Berardi’s Dress Of The Year for the premiere of her film Two Lovers in Paris in November 2008. The black and white trompe l’oeil corset dress featuring lace panelling was originally shown in Berardi’s Spring/Summer 2009 collection. The combination of the graphic monochromatic look and body conscious silhouette (two of the biggest trends of 2009) make it a front runner in the fashion stakes, but the dress also pre-empted the vogue for see-through, underwear-as-outerwear looks that have been paraded on the international catwalks for Spring/Summer 2010.

 

 

Vionnet Appeal

The Fashion Museum has acquired two outstanding examples of evening dress by celebrated Parisian couturier Madeleine Vionnet. Three museums with nationally important collections of Fashion - the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bowes Museum and the Fashion Museum in Bath - formed a consortium to bid for funding from various national grant-giving bodies. Their co-operative efforts raised sufficient funds to keep 9 of the dresses in the UK. The Fashion Museum was able to acquire two items through the generosity of
The Art Fund, the MLA/Purchase Grant Fund, Bath & North East Somerset Council, the West of England Costume Society and many private individuals and supporteres. There is still an opportunity to becone a benefactor, so if any individual or organisation wishes to assist the museum in the care of the items please e-mail fashion_enquiries@bathnes.gov.uk