Metal dress

Paco Rabanne presented his first collection, Twelve Experimental Dresses, in 1964 and followed it in 1966 with a couture collection he called Twelve Unwearable Dresses. This sculptural micromini dress, constructed of square and rectangular aluminum plates joined with metal rings, is a rare surviving example from his "unwearable" collection

Chain mail and scale mail mix dress. much work in that.

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“Zendaya as Dr. Octopus but make it fashion,” one fan quipped of the vintage gown, outfitted with a gold scorpion-like creature running down the back.

Mercury lame!!

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Paco Rabanne 1966 Paco Rabanne presented his first collection, Twelve Experimental Dresses, in 1964 and followed it in 1966 with a couture collection he called Twelve Unwearable Dresses. This sculptural micromini dress, constructed of square and rectangular aluminum plates joined with metal rings, is a rare surviving example from his "unwearable" collection. With its allusion to chain mail, the dress establishes Rabanne's practice of citing historical elements in his space-age aesthetic.

The young star epitomized the gala's theme of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination in the head-turning ensemble.

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