The 16ft-long (4.9m) silk velvet and ermine robe is the centrepiece of the Dress for Excess exhibition at the Royal Pavilion, opening on Saturday.

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"More than your typical art show, it really looked more like a farmer's market, " says video artist Zhang Peili, recalling the opening of an exhibition that was bound for history even before it was installed.

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The occasion will be the opening of an exhibition of work by artists short-listed for the 1997 Turner Prize but the rumpus will not be a piece of performance art.

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In Hong Kong for the opening of a traveling retrospective of her work, she arrived at the exhibition, her characteristic red hair contrasting with her pale complexion, with a small entourage of suitably fashionable and vaguely mysterious looking characters in tow.

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At the opening of the exhibition, his nephew Sir John Dermot Turing said it was important for the family that his human side was shown, as well as his mathematical achievements.

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