someone want to comes up with the original design of their dress and handed the sketches
off to Iain Bartlett, trusting him implicitly to turn my rough pencil sketches into the fabulous concoction that he came up with. They agreed that it should look like some gorgeous thing that had just been found in a trunk in grandma's attic vintage in its inspiration, with a little tatter and some slightly deconstructed elements. He hand-stitched all those ruffles on (literally hundreds), and made this beautiful petticoat from raw silk and this amazing fabric made of bits of netting it looked like the under skirt was trimmed in feathers.