Designed by Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel / Coat / ca. 1927

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Creator Name: Chanel, Gabrielle 'Coco'
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: French, 1908 - 1971
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
Title: Coat
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1925
Creation End Date: 1929
Creation Date: ca. 1927
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Classification Term: Outerwear-Womenswear
Materials and Techniques: silk, metal
Dimensions: L. at center back 44 in. (112 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1984.30
Credit Line: Irene Lewisohn Bequest Fund; Catherine Breyer Von Bomel Foundation; Hoechst Fiber Industries and Chauncy Stillman Fund, 1983.
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

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.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1984.30
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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