Text: This is a skirt muslin from a dress made for Lee Krasner in the early 1960s to wear to her husband’s (Jackson Pollack) exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. The following drawings by Antonio Lopez are of a further develop- ment of the skirt sh

This is a skirt muslin from a dress made for Lee Krasner in the early 1960s to wear to her husband’s (Jackson Pollack) exhibition at the Tate Gallery

in London. The following drawings by Antonio Lopez are of a further develop- ment of the skirt shape above. The idea for this “elliptical development” came from the back side with its arched seam. Charles James continued the arched seam to the side hemline,resul- ting in the seaming and shape of the muslins pictured on the mode.