Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Berardi’s Dress Of
The Year, for the premiere of her film, Two Lovers in
Paris in November 2008. Getty Images.
*STOP PRESS*
Friday 5 February 12.00pm
The Fashion Museum is proud to announce the Dress of the
Year 2009. Lucy Yeomans, editor of the glossy fashion
magazine Harper’s Bazaar, has chosen a dress designed by
Antonio Berardi for the coveted title of Dress Of The Year.
View the press release
here.
View BBC Points West film of the Dress of the year 2009
Gwyneth Paltrow wore Berardi’s Dress Of The Year for the
premiere of her film Two Lovers in Paris in November 2008.
The black and white trompe l’oeil corset dress featuring lace
panelling was originally shown in Berardi’s Spring/Summer 2009
collection. The combination of the graphic monochromatic look and
body conscious silhouette (two of the biggest trends of 2009) make
it a front runner in the fashion stakes, but the dress also
pre-empted the vogue for see-through, underwear-as-outerwear looks
that have been paraded on the international catwalks for
Spring/Summer 2010.
Each year since 1963, when the museum was founded in Bath, we
have asked a fashion expert to select a dress or outfit for the
museum’s collection to represent the most important new ideas in
contemporary fashion. The chosen designers or manufacturers have
always very generously given the clothes to the Fashion
Museum and the firm of Adel Rootstein donates an up-to-date
mannequin for the display.
Dress of the Year choices from 1963 to 2009 are listed
on the left.