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The
oyster dress
is a
high fashion
gown created by British fashion designer
Alexander McQueen
for his Spring/Summer 2003 collection
Irere
. McQueen's design is a one-shouldered dress in
bias-cut
beige silk
chiffon
with a
boned
upper body and a full-length skirt consisting of hundreds of individual circles of
organza
sewn in dense layers to the base fabric, resembling an
oyster
shell. The dress originated as a reinterpretation of the "shellfish dress" designed by
John Galliano
in 1987, which McQueen had long admired and sought to emulate. Contemporary critical responses to McQueen's oyster dress were positive and it is considered an iconic piece of McQueen's work. Only two copies are known to exist, one held by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York City and one by media personality
Kim Kardashian
. McQueen returned to the oyster dress concept several times over his career, most prominently in his Autumn/Winter 2006 collection
The Widows of Culloden
.
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De Viron Castle
is a castle in the town of
Dilbeek
in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. Commissioned by the de Viron family, which settled in Dilbeek in 1775, the castle was built in 1863 by
Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar
. The
Tudor-style
castle was built on the ruins of a 14th-century fortification that was destroyed in 1862. One of the medieval towers, the Sint-Alenatoren, can still be seen in the park surrounding the current building and is named after
Saint Alena
, who lived in Dilbeek. The castle has served as the town hall of Dilbeek and housed the offices of the municipality since 1923, and was listed as a
Belgian protected monument
in 1990. This photograph shows the facade of De Viron Castle with the surrounding park in the foreground.
Photograph credit:
Benoit Brummer
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