Choker: cast steel links with over-woven steel chain, leather ties

Nicol & Ford, fashion house
operating 2014-

Lilian Nicol-Ford, designer
Australia
1992

Katie-Louise Nicol-Ford, designer
Australia
1988
Tobias Sangkuhl, dressmaker
Australia
1994

Phoebe Hyles, choker maker
Australia
1986

Matea Gluščević, designer of shoes
New Zealand
1988


Choker: cast steel links with over-woven steel chain, leather ties
2024
(a) Dress: hand-linked steel chain-mail (b) Choker: cast steel links with over-woven steel chain, leather ties (c) G-string (d) Shoes: Bovine patent leather upper, pigskin lining, chrome plated rivets, rhinestone buckles, NZ Pine platform covered in bovine patent leather (e) headress hand-linked steel chain-mail
Place made
Newtown, New South Wales
Medium
(a) Dress: hand-linked steel chain-mail (b) Choker: cast steel links with over-woven steel chain, leather ties (c) G-string (d) Shoes: Bovine patent leather upper, pigskin lining, chrome plated rivets, rhinestone buckles, NZ Pine platform covered in bovine patent leather (e) headress hand-linked steel chain-mail
Dimensions
58.5 x 23.2 cm (b)
Credit line
June Porter Fashion Fund 2025
Accession number
20253A7(b)
Collection area
Australian Decorative Arts and Design
Copyright
© the artists
Image credit
Photo: Anne Thu Pham