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She was inspired by the Huguenot silk weavers who fled to England from France following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nates. Burton featured flowers heavily in her designs for the collection, remarking, ‘I loved the stories of how they [the Huguenots] arrived with very little, bringing seeds and bulbs in their pockets to grow. They were gardeners. And they wove their French flowers into the patterns on their silks.’  \r\n\r\nThe dress is Look 23 from the catwalk presentation. The textile design is very similar to the style of silks which were fashionable in England between 1745 and 1765, with a dominant plain white ground decorated with badges of flowers, brocaded onto the ground in lines (see T.17-1970). 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