Look 11, dress
2002 {Eshu collection, autumn-winter 2000–01}
- Medium
- screenprinted leather, mother-of-pearl (buttons)
- Measurements
- 109.0 cm (centre back) 37.0 cm (waist, flat)
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Inscription
- label, right centre back, woven in gold on black cotton: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN MADE IN / ITALY
- Accession Number
- 2022.895
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family, 2022
© Alexander McQueen - Gallery location
- Gallery 17
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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The back of this Alexander McQueen dress is screenprinted with the 1932 photograph Io et gatto (I and cat) by the Italian Futurist photographer Wanda Wulz. The iconic photograph was created by printing two negatives together, a self-portrait of Wulz and a close-up of a cat’s face. McQueen has given the dress further dimension and kinetic qualities by adding laser-cut vertical slashes.