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Fashionable Dalí Designs
The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg showcased the Daliesque fashion creations of local high school students who participated
in the museum’s annual Fashion Design at the Dalí educational program during a reception and display of the eight creations
judged to be the winners at Neiman Marcus in Tampa. The designs of all 24 students’ wearable art creations were available for
viewing earlier via The Dalí Virtual Premiere.
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Museum docents Janice Embrey Brown,
known for wearing Daliesque shoe “hats”
to the museum’s events, and Betsy
Schweitzer, an active Dalí Guild member,
enjoyed visiting with friends while admiring
the students’ designs.
Sofia Pickford, a 10th-grader at Alonso High
School, choose to enhance her otherwise
sweetly feminine dress with the bugs she had
observed in Dalí’s paintings.
Roula Latsios-Wilson and
Anne Drake McMullen enjoyed the
evening’s take-home portraits of guests
and decorated masks that were created
during the reception, which was hosted by
Neiman Marcus at the store in Tampa.
Gibbs High School 10th-grader Skyler
Parker’s design, which was displayed at
Neiman Marcus, featured fabric that she
decorated with Dalí-like eyes.
Brad and Mary Ann Morse are Dalí Museum
trustees who continue to support the
fashion education and other programs of
the museum, which was built to house the
Morse family’s world-class collection of
Dalí masterpieces.
Alonso High School 10th-grader
Sofia Pickford’s multi-hooped dress,
center, Gibbs High School 11th-grader
Annie Miller’s dress, left, and 10th-grader
Simona Tamulevicius’ dress, right, were on
display during the reception.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This event was COVID-19 safety compliant. Participants maintained social distancing and wore masks
except for eating, drinking or when being photographed.