Fashion: essence of a place

Prompt:

Create a gown meant to be exhibited at a place of your choosing.

A gown?!  Ask my sister: much to her chagrin, fashion and I just don't seem to match up. Which was exactly why Jonathan Edelman presented me with this one.  Two books on Alexander McQueen later, and many episodes of Project Runway into it, I was kinda finding a stride. So I created a pinterest boards (mood boards you see below) of an ephemeral persona and the Sutro Baths of Ocean beach to give me a sense of what I was looking for. 

And then started sketching.