Thursday, June 17, 2010

Fairytail Fashion


Bill Gibb: "Miles of untouched forest hand-printed onto silk... rich fabrics with richer decorations-marbled, hand-painted, feathered, piped...flower-faced beauty", is how one editorial described one of Bill Gibb's dresses. Gibb drew inspiration from historical costumes of the Renaissance. His work was whimsical and just pure magic.

"British designers are story tellers, fairytale tellers, dreamers, and I think this was really the essence of the romance behind Bill Gibb."

-John Galliano
















































(All Images scanned by me from Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy; V&A)

7 comments:

magnolia_mama said...

thank you so much for all the inspiration!

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禎峰 said...

You are flattering me..............................................................

jean said...

The bee was Bill Gibb's signature symbol.Nice of you to point it out.Like Zandra Rhodes & the late greats Ossie Clark & Jean Muir,Bill Gibb made some of the most surpriding & beautiful eveningwear that ever existed.Thanks for the pictures.

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