Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey Bison How about consoling yourself with

How about consoling yourself with one of my stitched paper green turtles

This is the gothest thing I’ve ever seen

Based on Victoria & Albert Museum accession 700-1864

The original boot

chosen to echo the silk velvet of the original

Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey Bison How about consoling yourself withThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a cocktail dress created by Charles James in 1949; the original, in blue grey silk, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 200). My first version of this cocktail dress used a black paper patterned with gold; Ive since become much more obsessed with using paper that evokes the original fabric. This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer. Charles James is considered by