Vignettes from Gala Dali's wardrobe

4000 word essay for exhibition catalogue, to accompany exhibition on Salvador Dali and Fashion at Palazzo Reale, Milan. This comprises the first academic investigation into Gala Dali's dressed appearance drawing upon surviving clothing as primary evidence. I explore how and why she kept hers and Dali's clothes, what she chose to preserve, analyse her personal style and dress similarities with Dali, I argue that both her husbands intervened in her clothing choices to determine how they wanted her to look and situate her surviving clothes worn in public spaces - the items being exhibited - with her biography and historical contexts.