Bare Bottom Dress after 1993

Marlies Dekkers created this ‘Bare Bottom Dress’, and I wonder what fabrics she chose and how she worked them to make it look so good! You know, when I look at it, I can almost feel the fabric, the way it might shift and breathe with movement. Look at how it hugs the mannequin in certain places, and then billows out, creating these awesome lines. Those dark seams! The edges kind of delineate the space and volume of the dress. It's like she’s playing with revealing and concealing at the same time, you know? There’s something very sensual about the dress. I wonder what it would have been like to make. I can see her, or maybe a whole team, fussing over the details, trying to get the balance just right. Dekkers must have been thinking a lot about the body, about shape and form. It reminds me of other designers who are pushing boundaries, exploring new ways to dress the human form. It’s like they're all in a big conversation, bouncing ideas off each other across time.