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Dress
Design House Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh Italian
Designer Virgil Abloh American
Not on view
BUOYANCY The resilience of spirit (lightheartedness):
Virgil Abloh and Off-White designed this gown- a commission for the Costume Institute's "In America" exhibition - as a meditation on the beauty and brutality of cotton production from the nineteenth century to the present. Its shape recalls the fashionable silhouette of the mid-nineteenth century interpreted through Off-White's design vocabulary, including a T-shirt of cotton knit twisted over the bust in the style of a 1950s evening bodice. Cotton bales inspired the expansive skirt, sprayed in blue with ''Verg," Abloh's graffiti tag and a tribute to the late designer.
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