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  • Collection: Sylvia in the Fountain: Creating The Look

See how Ekberg arranges the train of her dress, a sea monster-siren's tail, as she wades in to the fountain; the fabric of the dress becomes visibly saturated, floaty, as she turns and parades for onlookers who have come to watch the filming

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…
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