Woman in a violet dress with a pleated bodice and draped skirt leaning on a plinth in a concrete gallery

Evening and sequins · Spring · Autumn

Violet pleated bodice dress with a draped skirt

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Pleats so fine they look like a decision. A violet dress, the bodice pressed into tiny pleats, a draped tulip skirt, one side of the waist cut away. Thin-strap black sandals, no jacket. The pleats are the structure. I am just the content. Gallery opening, white wine, one glass.

A violet dress with a finely pleated bodice and a draped tulip skirt, cut away at one side of the waist, at a gallery opening.

A knee-length dress in two halves of the same violet: a fitted bodice in fine, closely set pleats that run in vertical waves from a high round neck to the hip, and a matte skirt draped from the hip in heavy folds and pulled into a soft tulip shape above the knee. The bodice meets the skirt on a diagonal, and on one side the join opens into a small cut-out at the waist.

A gallery-opening dress, the sort that lets you stand still for two hours. Spring or autumn, a black sandal with a thin strap, hair down, small hoops. It reads tailored from across the room and relaxed close up, which is the right order.

Standing next to the sculpture was not an accident. I wanted to see which of us got looked at first.