American Express Gold card dress of Lizzy Gardiner
Designer | Lizzy Gardiner |
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Year | 1995 |
Material | American Express Gold cards |
Australian costume designer Lizzy Gardiner wore a dress made of 254 American Express Gold cards to the 67th Academy Awards on 27 March 1995, where she won the Best Costume Design award for her work on the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. All of the cards were authentic, but had expired.[1]
Background and history
The gown had originally been conceived for the film
Design
The outfit was made of 254 expired American Express gold cards,
Reception
Cosmopolitan magazine cited the dress as one of the worst Oscar dresses of all time, saying, "It's a dress made of American Express Gold cards. We're not sure what else to say about this one, except that the obvious lesson is this: For the love of God, do not design your own dress for the red carpet."[8]
Time magazine also voted the dress as amongst the worst Oscar dresses of all time saying, "Our problem with the outfit Gardiner wore to accept her award isn't that her dress was made out of a bizarre, nontraditional material. Our problem is that the material of choice was the American Express gold card. It's tacky. And how did she sit down in that thing?"[9]
In contrast, Variety magazine's Complete Book of Oscar Fashion referred to Gardiner's dress as "clever".[10]
Seeing the promotional potential of the dress, American Express were reported to have wanted to showcase the dress in its travel offices throughout the US.[6]
The dress is now held by the National Gallery of Victoria.[5][11]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4296-0129-0.
- ISBN 978-0-7407-5118-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3.
- ISBN 978-1-4392-3121-0.
- ^ a b c "How a dress made of credit cards stole the show during Priscilla's Oscar win". ABC News. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ a b Gellene, Denise (24 April 1995). "Designer Cashes in on That American Express Gold Card Dress". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ISSN 0279-0483.
- ^ "Oscars Best and Worst Dressed". Cosmopolitan. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ "The 25 Best and Worst Oscar Gowns of All-Time". Time. 22 February 2011. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- OCLC 53233868.
- ^ "The American Express ® gold card dress | Lizzy Gardiner (designer) | NGV | View Work". www.ngv.vic.gov.au.