Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
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Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
Fashion Designer Susie McMurray came up with a symbolic pins dress, and called it – “Widow.” Meanwhile, it embodies the sting of losing a loved one. There is another meaning of unusual attire of pins: a woman in mourning may be closed, raise the needle on end, like a hedgehog, and no one not even close to fend for her soul.
Noteworthy, to create an unusual outfit Susie McMurray has spent about one hundred thousand pins, stuck into the leather piece. In sum, armor weighs over 43 pounds. Until January 2, dress pins is in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
Prickly Widow dress by Designer Susie McMurray

Born in London in 1959, Susie MacMurray spent her adolescent years in Montreal, Canada, before returning to London to study music. Leaving a successful career as a classical musician, MacMurray went back to school in 1996 and retrained as an artist. She graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA in sculpture and a master’s in fine arts in 2001. MacMurray works mainly in sculpture and installation, typically doing site-specific work in historical spaces.

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
Prickly Widow dress by Designer Susie McMurray

Previous works by Susie McMurray:

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
Gladrags 2002. 10,000 fuschia pink balloons, rug underlay, collection of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Designer Susie McMurray

Prickly Widow dress by Susie McMurray
1400 household gloves turned inside out, calico, tailors dummy. Designer Susie McMurray
Icon 2002. 15,000 metallic blue balloons, rug underlay. Designer Susie McMurray
Icon 2002. 15,000 metallic blue balloons, rug underlay. Designer Susie McMurray

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