Barry Lyndon

This black lace dress with patterns of flowers in vases features wide hips, a silhouette referencing eighteenth-century styles, which are featured throughout Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975). The film follows the exploits of Redmond Barry, who ascends to become Lord Barry Lyndon before fate ultimately unravels his self-styled transformation. The fatalistic romanticism in Barry Lyndon and evoked in the Sarabande collection underscores shared artistic proficiencies of Kubrick and McQueen, including exceptional craftsmanship and capacity for world-making. Here, Michael Schmidt’s towering headpiece of encrusted black flowers simulates the toupee, a fashionable eighteenth-century hairstyle.