Terms and conditions of use
Dress
2004 {Too rich too walk collection, spring-summer 2005}
- Medium
- silk
- Measurements
- 120.0 cm (centre back) 37.0 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- France
- Inscription
- label, centre back neckline, debossed and printed in ink on brown plastic: John / Galliano
- Accession Number
- 2020.615
- 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 - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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John Galliano’s spring–summer 2005 collection blended references to twentieth-century socialite and Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton with twenty-first century ‘it’ girl Sienna Miller. The runway presentation was likened to an extravagant party full of phantasmagorical indulgence. This dress shows Galliano’s signature use of bias-cut in combination with a psychedelic print indicative of his interest in subcultural touchstones.