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Evoking vampires
Fall 1981 and 1992
The Museum at FIT
New York City, United States
Left: Thierry Mugler / Dress / Black silk velvet / Fall 1981, France / 99.80.1 / Museum purchase
“These Stoics of the boudoir drink their own blood under their mask and remain masked. For Dandies, as for women, to seem [to appear] is to be,” wrote Barbey d’Aurevilly. The dandy’s style and philosophy influenced the image of the gothic vampire aristocrat.
Right: Eiko Ishioka / Costume for the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) / Red silk / 1992, USA / Lent by Francis Ford Coppola, American Zoetrope
Costume designer Eiko Ishioka clothed Dracula’s victim/lover Mina in this voluptuous blood-red dress.
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Details
- Title: Evoking vampires
- Fashion House: Thierry Mugler
- Date Created: Fall 1981 and 1992
- Location Created: France and USA
- Type: Dress, costume
- Rights: Copyright The Museum at FIT
- Medium: Dress: Black silk velvet Costume: Red silk
- Credit: Dress: Museum purchase Costume: Lent by Francis Ford Coppola, American Zoetrope
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