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DIY Inspiration: Viktor & Rolf Illusion Dress S/S 2010.

If you try and make and “inspired” version of the Viktor & Rolf Illusion Dress (I hear laughing through my computer), make sure you stand against a black background! (via loelyish)

How did Viktor & Rolf make the Illusion Dress? 

Viktor & Rolf gave an interview to  the NTYs and they offered this guide to making the illusion dress:

Purchase 149 yards of fine tulle for the skirt, 44 yards of stiffer tulle for the underskirt and 2.3 miles of very thin yarn, which you will use to sew the garment by hand.

Dye the tulle pale green.

Create a stiff black inner crinoline-like structure, measured to your body, using camel’s hair and boning, in the shape of the final skirt with a cutout strip below the hips.

Build up the skirt, gathering the tulle layer by layer, lightly hand-stitching the layers together. Work toward a solid shape that is airy and light; fine-tune the volume. Use sharp, slim scissors to cut a perfectly straight and uniform horizontal swath in the tulle to match the cutout in the structure underneath.

Move on to the bodice, which you should fashion to your body using metal boning and chiffon. Hand-embroider 547 white sequins onto the front panel.

Attach the skirt to the bodice.

You’re done! And it only took 163 hours.

Here is the Viktor & Rolf Illusion Dress on the runway, PAFW Spring/Summer 2010.

There are more photos of Viktor & Rolf’s Illusion Dress from Dazed Confused.