This dress features an infamous print derived from a painting by Edgar Degas entitled 'Dancers' from Gaultier's spring 2004 show. The French impressionist artist was infamous for oil paintings, and at age 39 would paint only ballerinas for the rest of his career. “People call me the painter of dancing girls,” Degas later told Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard. “It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.” It was no wonder Gaultier had an affinity and connection with this artist for this collection, despite the styling in the show being relatively relaxed in a seemingly lazy purposeful way, with juxtaposed layering, undone laced corsets, chunky slouched cowboy boots and various ethnic prints being thrown together. Made in Italy