Marlene Dietrich “Dali” personally owned makeup compact “Bird in Hand” by Elgin American.
Brass compact features textured wings with gold painted tips and red enamel eyes. It opens to a mirror and unused pouf made of soft real feathers, with additional hinged compartment for pressed powder. A lipstick tube emerges from behind the bird’s head and the tail opens as a pillbox compartment. The name “Dali” is engraved and painted in black under the bird’s neck on the base of the lipstick tube, but no documentation exists to suggest Salvador Dali designed the bird, rather Ellison Irelan, Carl Fritz and Mortimer Vogelman are credited with the design. Compact dates to 1951.
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Dress made entirely out of condoms for the National AIDS conference in Vietnam, 2005
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