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Title
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Ensemble
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date created
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pre-fall 2018
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designer
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Virgil Abloh (American, Rockford, Illinois 1980–2021 Chicago)
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design house
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Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh (Italian, founded 2013)
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description
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Rather than imitating something it is not, this dress becomes a label for itself. The phrase "'LITTLE BLACK DRESS'" runs down one side of the garment, an acknowledgment of that both the phrase—and the garment itself—are a bit cliché. This functions as a reference to and a reversal of René Magritte's 1929 painting, "The Treachery of Images". The boots that accompany the dress are labeled as well; they read "'FOR WALKING.'" This is an allusion to the 1966 Nancy Sinatra song, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin,'" another overused phrase in American culture.
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