Terms and conditions of use
Clam, dress
1987 {Blanche DuBois collection, spring-summer 1988}
- Medium
- organza
- Measurements
- 106.0 cm (centre back) 32.0 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Inscription
- label, centre back, woven in blue on burgundy polyester: John / Galliano / 1 / MADE IN BRITAIN
- Accession Number
- 2020.606
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020
© Public domain - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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Named after the tragic fragile heroine of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Galliano describes his 1987 spring–summer collection as ‘being proper and [English]... the anonymity of beekeeping, the art of apiary’. The undulating organdie layers of Clam dress were inspired by a scrap of a 1950s magazine that Galliano found showing a tiered layered skirt. It became the finale of the show and was only made to special order. Only twenty-five were ever made.