"Dear Elsa, I like this idea of 'bones on the outside' enormously…” wrote Salvador Dalí in a letter to the designer. And thus was born The Skeleton Dress, unveiled in 1938 as part of the Le Cirque (Circus) collection. #TheDali #NationalDressDay 🎨 The skeleton woman, Salvador Dalí, 1938 © Salvador Dalí, Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dalí / Adagp, Paris 2023. 👗: Schiaparelli “skeleton” dress, Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.