Happy 2023! Wishing you a new year as colorful and bright as this Conner Ives dress 🎉 ⁣ This piece, from Ives’s graduation collection called “The American Dream,” was based on female archetypes that he grew up with watching on television. Comprised of repurposed vintage clothing, deadstock fabric, and recycled materials, the collection reflected a new Americana. Ethical production is central to Ives’s practice as seen in this contemporary representation of the debutante, embroidered with recycled plastic floral sequins made in collaboration with The Sustainable Sequin Company. // "The Debutante,” #ConnerIves (American, born 1996), fall/winter 2021–22; Purchase from Conner Ives (2022.378a, b). #TheMet #CostumeInstitute