BillyBoy* Suomessa

BillyBoy* vieraili 1980-luvun lopulla kustannusyhtiö Weiling+Göösin kutsumana Suomessa mainostamassa Barbie-kirjaansa. Seuraavassa on joitakin tapauksen tiimoilta Suomessa julkaistuja lehtiartikkeleita. Kiitämme Lalaa hienoista arkistolöydöksistä!

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Dali and meat

Salvador Dali and wife Gala, 1964

NARIQUE MENESES/REX FEATURES

Salvador Dali who inspired Elsa Schiaparelli's lambchop hat and jacket, painted in early 1930's a portrait of his wife Gala with a pair of raw chops poised on her shoulder.

Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops in Equilibrium Upon Her Shoulder, 

Salvador Dali 1934

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image: Copyright Whitney Museum of American Art

Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder, 

Salvador Dali 1933

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2004.

"I painted a portrait of Gala with a pair of raw chops poised on her shoulder.
The meaning of this, as I later learned, was that instead of eating her, I had decided to eat a pair of raw chops instead. The chops were in effect the expiatory victims of abortive sacrifice - like Abraham’s ram and William Tell’s apple. Ram and apple, like the sons of Saturn and Jesus Christ on the cross, were raw - this being the prime condition for the cannibalistic sacrifice.

In the same vein I painted a picture of myself as a child at about the age of eight, with a raw chop on my head. I was trying thus symbolically to tempt my father to come and eat this chop instead of me.”

Salvador Dali from his 1942 autobiography "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí"

Evening jacket

black evening jacket, Haute Couture, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris 1938

Fashion and Haute Couture history. Surrealistic evening jacket designed by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1938. It was made of  black marocain wool with mirrored paillettes (resembling lambchop beefs).

detail

Photos copyright Victoria & Albert Museum

Délice et Orgues

"Delices et Orgues", Mdvanii haute couture, 
prototype and one-of-a-kind, 1989

For dancing after a dinner party at a chic casino or nightclub, Mdvanii wears "Delices et Orgues" a one-of-a-kind creation of great rarity and beauty. Rumba and cocktails and glittery Parisian nightclub atmosphere is what this gown calls for.

In teal blue jersey, this classic fishtail gown is entirely draped by hand in the atelier, based upon her famous "Sortilege" creation featured in her first catalogue. Unliked the "Sortilege" model which is strictly constructed, this has soft pleats, 1940s-esque draped and padded shoulders, draped décollété in the back and has delicately hand-appliquéd black lace down the bodice and ruched black lace at the three-quarter length sleeves.

A mist of very fine grey tulle creates the voluptuous fishtail effect of the flounce and it has a sumptuous array of hand-done beadwork into the tulle….and infact, the entire gown is lavishly hand-embroidered in jet, blue and gold beadwork. The neckline has a shoulder-exposed effect, smothered in beads as well.

The "Shocking Pink" gloves have hand done gold beadwork to match. This evening ensemble has a sober clutch of matching jersey and the turban is the piéce-de-résistance, a draped high affair reminescent of the 1940s Paris.

Matching jet and gold necklace choker and divine filigrée earrings, closed toe pump shoes to match.

Kuvat FT