Bath Fashion Museum?s Dress of the Year Unveiled

Bath Fashion Museum's prestigious Dress of the Year award has been unveiled.

In 2013 the museum asked celebrated fashion blogger Susanna Lau of www.stylebubble.co.uk to make the selection.

Susanna’s choice as Dress of the Year 2013 is a sugar pink silk organza dress from leading British designer Christopher Kane's Spring/Summer 2013 collection.

The on-the-knee sleeveless dress is embellished with cut-out white machine-made lace panels to which are affixed jewelled roundels, made up of hundreds of tiny pink diamantes. Strips of black duct tape are attached all over the front of the garment – a bold heavy detail against the delicacy, lightness, and brightness of the dress.

Susanna has completed the Dress of the Year ensemble with a pair of hot pink and black 'Liquorice Allsorts' striped stiletto heel sandals by Sophia Webster, and a cartoon character pink canvas cap by Nasir Mazhar.

Susannah Lau said: “I chose Christopher Kane's dress because, to me, he is one of the most exciting and brilliant designers to have emerged from London Fashion Week. He manages to take the most unexpected elements and make them work in collections that then define seasons.  The Spring/Summer 2013 season saw Kane take on Frankenstein – crystals, black gaffer tape and white lace shouldn't sit well with one another but the juxtaposition somehow come off as harmonious.

“To accompany the dress I have also chosen young accessories designers who have also contributed to London 's rise – unconventional milliner Nasir Mazhar who has segued into street-inspired ready to wear and quirky shoe designer Sophia Webster.”

The Dress of the Year is on display at the Fashion Museum throughout 2014. The Fashion Museum is open daily from 10.30am to 4pm (exit 5pm). For more information visit www.fashionmuseum.co.uk or call 01225 477789.