![]() ![]() Aghayan added delicate off-the-shoulder cap sleeves and gave it an elegant, trimmed-down Regency-style train, in contrast to Klimt’s more dramatic one, which sweeps across the canvas and envelops the sitter in gilded iconography. Cut in the Empire style from gold lamé, it mirrors Bloch-Bauer’s face-framing square neckline. ![]() Streisand wore the gown for her 1984 acceptance of the Scopus Laureate Award, bestowed on her by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her professional accomplishments and her continued advancement of Jewish education. ![]() The shimmering creation is an homage to Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - the pivotal artwork popularized as “The Woman in Gold” thanks to Anne-Marie O’Connor’s 2012 book, The Lady in Gold, and a 2015 film starring Helen Mirren, which chronicle the true story of the painting’s plunder from the Bloch-Bauer family in Vienna by the Nazis and the landmark legal battle to restitute the work to its rightful heirs.ĭecades before these literary and cinematic accounts, Klimt’s Art Nouveau masterpiece was brought to life in the 1980s by Aghayan, whose couture interpretation was commissioned by EGOT-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand.Ī sequined Streisand with Neil Diamond at the Scopus Award Gala An exemplary piece of archival fashion, this meticulously crafted treasure is doubly suited for museum exhibition, as it is not only a masterpiece in its own right but was also inspired by one. Rare and unique items of exceptional provenance are often described as “museum quality,” a characterization easily applied to this 1984 beaded gold-lamé dress by Iranian-born designer Ray Aghayan (1928–2011). The evening dress was inspired by Gustav Klimt’s 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (detail, right). Barbra Streisand at the Scopus Award Gala in 1984 (left) wearing the gold gown (center) she commissioned Ray Aghayan to design for her. ![]()
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