Evisu Ball, Manhattan, NY, 2010

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A color photographic print of an unidentified participant waiting backstage at the Evisu Ball in Manhattan in 2010. The participating is pictured just to the right of center frame, standing next to a wall. She wears a black-and-white ensemble of houndstooth print fabric, with exaggerated puff sleeves and standing collar. The garment is cinched at the waist and chest with a black satin corset. Beneath the corset is a short, flared skirt ending in black ostrich feathers. She wears elbow-length black patent leather gloves and a houndstooth pillbox hat topped with a towering structure of black and white birds. Her face is painted white with black squares, and black feathers at the eyebrows, forehead, and jawline. Her proper left hand rests on the wall and her right hand rests on her right hip.

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