Reconstructing the Peacock Dress [Teaser]

For the last 14 years, Cathy Hay has had it in her head to reconstruct what is possibly one of Worth's most elaborate gowns: the 1902 Peacock Dress. Why? It's completely covered in metallic embroidery, which means that this once-dazzling, showstopping spectacle of a gown is now faded and tarnished and altered--and nothing like how it would have looked on the night it was worn.
It's now been 10 years since the reconstruction process began. Despite numerous setbacks, there is a new Cunning Plan afoot--and the dress is, at long last, on the road to completion.

Watch this space.

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Music:
"Dream Bigger" by Yi Nantiro, epidemicsound.com

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