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This piece, in honor of the ultimate water nymphs, is inspired by Fellini's description of Ekberg: "She possessed incredible beauty. I had never seen anyone like her. The luminous colour of her skin, her clear ice-blue eyes, golden hair, exuberance,…

Take a look at the dress, on display here in the hall dedicated to Fellini at Cinecitta Studios in Rome. Indeed it is void, mute, maybe even parched and cold after its giddy week in 1960 of being soaked and penetrated.

In thinking about dress as a situated body practice, consider the relationship between a garment and the body wearing it. Is it reciprocal, transactional, symbiotic? When a body moves in a garment, how does the garment react? As vintage fashion…