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Materials: Japanese & Thai kozo papers
held by the Hillwood Museum (accession 48
and a crinoline made from Japanese tissue peeks out from underneath
Korean hanji
Dress #117: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Octopus Materials: Japanese & Thai kozoThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952 1954 as a sample for New York ready to wear manufacturer Samuel Winston; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013. 341). That relationship eventually ended in a lawsuit for breach of contract, as James was convinced that Winston was stealing his designs for one of his other labels, without crediting James. James
