Evening coat
WORK
[id: w_0000056, refid: 17980, source: Art and Architecture Library, University of California, San Diego, UCSD]agent = Coco Chanel (French fashion designer, 1883-1971); House of Chanel (couture house, founded 1913)
date = ca. 1927
description = The convergence of Art Deco line, the modernist impulse to facilitate pure form, and Japonisme's potential to offer a vocabulary of untailored wrapping shapes was more than fortuitous. Chanel uses a French ombré textile with pattern sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion designers discovered from the East that untailored lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms for apparel.
location = Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Costume Institute, New York, NY (1984.30)
material = silk; metalic thread
measurements = L. at center back 44 in. (112 cm)
relation = full view from the back [type: imageIs, relids: i_00000878]
source = Metropolitan Museum of Art website, accessed 21 February 2007
stylePeriod = Art Deco; Japonism; Modernist
title = Evening coat
worktype = coat
IMAGE
[id: i_00000878, refid: 17500, source: Art and Architecture Library, University of California, San Diego, UCSD]relation = Evening coat [type: imageOf, relids: w_0000056]
title = full view from the back
worktype = digital image