A butterfly rendered in thousands of hand-placed glass beads — cobalt, glacial blue, silver, iridescent — each one sewn individually over the course of three months. The wings span the body the way a real butterfly holds still: briefly, impossibly. The base is a vintage 2000s corset restructured to carry the weight of the work, its rhinestone-tubed straps catching light the way wings do mid-flight. Lined in pink 100% cotton.
Materials & construction
Vintage 2000s corset base
Hand-placed glass seed beads, bugle beads, and crystals
Rhinestone chain tubing straps
Pink 100% cotton lining
Handwork duration: 3 months
Price upon inquiry
Available for purchase, rental, and exhibition. Rental inquiries welcome from costume designers, stylists, and production houses.
Something ceremonial lives in this piece. A 1950s corset encased in glass beads — white, blue, green, iridescent silver — scattered like light through water. At the center, a rhinestone pear brooch caught in a nest of silver and bugle beads, quietly formal, quietly strange. The straps are hand-strung glass and thread. The skirt — a vintage Oscar de la Renta wedding underskirt — beaded to match, transforming a garment once meant to disappear into something that finally gets to be seen.
