File:Alexander McQueen clamshell dress (51611p).jpg

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Description	English: Alexander McQueen clamshell dress (spring/summer 2001) in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met. "White cotton canvas embroidered with stripped, bleached, and varnished razor clamshells."
Date	25 May 2024, 13:42:38
Source	Own work
Author	Rhododendrites

Camera location	40° 46′ 46.06″ N, 73° 57′ 47.55″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	40.779461; -73.963208


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current	23:29, 26 May 2024	3,339 × 5,620 (15.76 MB)	Rhododendrites	Cropped 4 % vertically, 4 % areawise using CropTool with precise mode.
	19:03, 26 May 2024	3,339 × 5,827 (12.46 MB)	Rhododendrites	brighten, recrop, etc.
	21:57, 25 May 2024	3,390 × 5,946 (11.53 MB)	Rhododendrites	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

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