Look 24, Joan Bound, Thorn, Australian Fashion Week collection

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


Look 24, Joan Bound, Thorn, Australian Fashion Week collection
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)
36.3 x 23.2 cm (c)
19.0 x 10.0 x 27.0 cm (d)
Credit line
June Porter Fashion Fund 2025
Accession number
20253A7(a-e)
Collection area
Australian Decorative Arts and Design
Copyright
© the artists
Image credit
Photo: Anne Thu Pham