poster paper dress "Eye"
poster paper dress "Eye"
Designer
Creation date
1968
Materials
paper (wood pulp and rayon mesh), screen printed
Dimensions
L: 35 1/4 in.
Credit line
Emma Harter Sweetser Fund
Accession number
2004.53
The graphic artist Harry Gordon designed five different dresses that became known as Poster Dresses. Treating the surface of the dress as a canvas, Gordon used one large photographic blow-up to cover the entire surface of each dress.
Poster Dresses sold for $3 and were all the same cut, a sleeveless A-line shift with one Velcro closure on the left shoulder seam.
