One film made this week to answer one question: do the hardest pieces survive generation? No studio, no lighting, no camera, no shoot. The velvet, the embroidery and the jewellery are below, next to what came out.
Her hand pushes a leaf aside and the square bracelet reads clean. She turns, and the earring holds. Then the camera goes into the velvet: the fan motif, the couching, the raised thread. Nothing here was photographed by us.
The dress, from the back
The square bracelet
The earrings