.jpg "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.
Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Berardi’s Dress Of The Year, for the
premiere of her film, Two Lovers in Paris in November
2008. Getty Images.
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