INSPIRATION Charles James 1953… Stella McCartney SS||2014 pre-collection

As many times before also this year's annual exhibition of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has and will inspire fashion designers work. The show named 'Charles James: Beyond Fashion" will kick-off the 8th of May and examines the work and career of the legendary Anglo-American couturier. One of his beautiful creations is this sculptured evening gown from 1953 [left], that might have been an inspiration to this ultra-modern cocktail dress of Stella McCartney [right].