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Peter Minshall, From the Land of the Hummingbird, Trinidad Carnival, 1974. 

Upon finishing his studies at Central School of Art & Design in London, Minshall was asked by his mother to return home to Trinidad to create a costume for his adopted sister Sherry-Ann Guy (Coelho) to wear for carnival 1974. According to him, it took five weeks, 12 people, 104 feathers, each one made of 150 different pieces of fabric. The costume was designed to allow its wearer total mobility and was an immediate sensation.