Fashion unpicked: the Skeleton dress by Elsa Schiaparelli

Designed in collaboration with surrealist artist Salvador Dali, Schiaparelli's elegant – yet uncanny – evening dress is superimposed with skeletal bones. Join Senior Curator Sonnet Stanfill for a closer look at it's construction, featuring padding, zips, and quilting on sheer crepe fabric.

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Hat,The Pagan Collection, designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1938, Paris, France.

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