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Dress
Designer LaQuan Smith American
Not on view
SENSUALITY The quality or state of being sensual (sensory: of or relating to sensation or to the senses):
Like Giorgio di Sant'Angelo, Laquan Smith plays with stretch fabrics, cutouts, and transparency to emphasize and amplify the contours of the body. His designs highlight and celebrate the diversity of the female form to embolden and empower the wearer. Despite the modest high neckline and full length of this dress, Smith accentuates and reveals the body with figure-hugging stretch jersey and a large circular cutout at the front with narrow- fabric panels stretched across the bust.
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