The initial lobster motif was drawn by Dali and printed onto the dress by the silk designer Sache.

[1] In her book, Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments, Ann Shen wrote that in Simpson's wearing of the dress "was charged with erotic flippancy" and gave the British public "even more reason to hate Wallis" in the aftermath of her husband's abdication as British monarch.

Shen felt that the dress shows "the power of innovation and sexual empowerment in a woman – and the impact art and fashion can have".

[9] The dress was reimagined by Schiaparelli's Creative Director Bertrand Guyon for their Spring 2017 collection of haute couture.

Guyon's dress took 6 people some 250 hours to make, with the lobster appliqué sewn by hand onto the skirt.