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The Dress of the Year is an annual fashion award run by the Fashion Museum, Bath from 1963. Each year since 1963, the Museum has asked a
Accessed 25 May 2011 For 2010 the Museum broke with tradition by asking the
Accessed 25 May 2011 and again in 2014 when the fashion
The Fashion Museum's website
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The Dress of the Year is an annual fashion award run by the Fashion Museum, Bath from 1963. Each year since 1963, the Museum has asked a fashion journalist
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion ...
to select a dress or outfit that best represents the most important new ideas in contemporary fashion.Dress of the Year at the Fashion Museum's websiteAccessed 25 May 2011 For 2010 the Museum broke with tradition by asking the
milliner
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter.
Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of ...
Stephen Jones, rather than a journalist, to choose an outfit;Press release for the 2010 Dress of the Year at the Fashion Museum's websiteAccessed 25 May 2011 and again in 2014 when the fashion
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...
ger, Susanna Lau of ''Style Bubble'', was asked to choose an outfit for 2013. The outfit is then donated to the Fashion Museum along with an Adel Rootstein
Adel Rootstein (1930 – 20 September 1992) was a British mannequin designer responsible for premium designs that are sold worldwide.
Early life
Rootstein was born in Warmbaths, South Africa in 1930. She married the industrial designer Richar ...
mannequin
A mannequin (also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles. ...
to represent that year's total look.
Selections in chronological order
See also
*List of fashion awards
This list of fashion awards is an index to articles on notable awards given for fashion. It is organized by the country of the sponsoring organization, but entries are not always limited to that country.
List
See also
*Lists of awards
* List ...
References
Further reading
*External links
The Fashion Museum's website
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