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Womenswear - "Celebration" skirt with top installation view of the exhibition

Erika Varga

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary

This ceremonial, long white skirt and three-quarter coat decorated with white tulle at the shoulder embody Celebration. The reproductions of two selected art objects are also encountered on the dress: the gilt silver pendant with a depiction of the Virgin Mary at the centre, as well as the 18th-century devotional image of Madonna and Child in a gilt limewood frame. In the case of the motif deriving from the latter – and arriving to a dress – the designers exchanged the portrait: in place of the Virgin, they positioned a portrait of their mother from her youth, while they exchanged the head of the baby for a childhood portrait of Erika Varga. In the background of the composition is an earlier Romani collection, Rebel Spirit, in which stained glass window motifs are also found.

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  • Title: Womenswear - "Celebration" skirt with top installation view of the exhibition
  • Creator: Erika Varga
  • Manufacturer: Romani Design
  • Date Created: 2021
  • Location Created: Budapest
  • Physical Dimensions: 49 x 42 cm (top), 118 x 32 cm (skirt)
  • Subject Keywords: In Circulation, applied arts, contemporary design, fashion, clothes, Hungarian design
  • Type: artifact
  • Rights: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 2023, CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
  • External Link: Romani Design, In Circulation (Thematic Collections), in Circulation: Romani Design
  • Medium: tulle, duchesse satin, lace
  • Art Genre: applied arts
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

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