Behold the work that added up to the first two samples... I'll start off by saying that it was intimidating to start this new project. It...

This dress seems quite easy at first. No fancy embellishments or crazy techniques. However, I realized pretty quickly that it is about...

This dress is exciting purely for the fact it has a famous sister in a famous photograph. The sister is similar in all ways but one. The...

I am absolutely thrilled to make this dress. Madame Gres dresses are such style icons that designers to this very day still copy the...

This is one of my absolute fave dresses by Dior. Second only to Junon, this is a dress that I've always wanted to make. Similar to Junon,...

This dress is sleek. What will be a feat in itself is to make the piece look good while just on the form. The movement of the cummerbund...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute Evening dress fall/winter 1955–56 House of Dior French Exemplifying Dior's faultless minimalism of...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute Evening dress fall/winter 1954–55 Madame Grès (Alix Barton) French Each draped dress begins with...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute "La Cigale" fall/winter 1952–53 House of Dior French Harper's Bazaar (September 1952) described...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute Evening dress fall/winter 1949–50 House of Dior French Though known for his ultra-feminine...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute "Pop-over"1942 Claire McCardell American Sally Kirkland, in All-American: A Sportwear Tradition,...

Balenciaga is "the master of us all" as Christian Dior once said. There are hundreds of iconic pieces by him, however, this book only...

Anything Vionnet scares me. Madeleine Vionnet is one of the most influential designers of all time and that being said any of her pieces...

This dress is gorgeous. It has been fun researching this dress and I am a sucker for Jeanne Lanvin. It started with finding pictures as...

This was another difficult dress to find pictures. I still don't have a strong idea of what the front looks like! I was lucky enough that...

So when I started the research for this dress the hardest part is finding other images of a single dress. I know that the Met has the...

Excerpt from The Met Costume Institute "Velasquez"1939 House of Balenciaga French Balenciaga's "Infanta" dress was inspired by the...

Excerpt from the Met Costume Institute: Evening dress spring/summer 1938 Madeleine Vionnet French Though there are separate specialists...

Excerpt from the MET Costume Institute: "Cyclone" 1939 House of Lanvin French This gown is part of a collection assembled and brought to...

Excerpt from the MET Costume Institute: Evening dress spring/summer 1947 Jacques Fath French The corset is a fashion convention to define...