Iconoclast designer Elsa Schiaparelli is most remembered for infusing a sense of wit and irony into her designs in her signature surreal aesthetic. Schiaparelli’s Fall 1939 music-themed collection showcased music, quite literally, with buttons shaped as drums, music notes embroidered on diaphanous gossamer textiles and music boxes designed into belts and hats. This particular dress, owned by Heiress Millicent Rogers and housed at the Costume Institute at the Met, features musical notes and symbols embroidered in metallic thread on organza, paired with a belt designed with a working music box as the buckle. Dolce and Gabbana’s Fall 2011 collection, inspired by David Bowie and Janelle Monáe, similarly represented music through the visual motif of musical notes printed onto a dress.