Object: Dress
Brand:
Courrèges
(French, 1961 - 1986)
Designer:
André Courrèges
(1923 - 2016)
Date: c. 1968
Medium: Wool
Country: France
Credit Line: Gift of Bernie Zamkoff
Object number: 78.170.5
DescriptionA-line mini dress in light grey heavy wool with contoured shoulder yoke, cap sleeves, belted drop waist and rounded patch pockets, topstitched; wool belt with round plastic buckle
Label Text:Although André Courrèges claimed to have "invented" the mini skirt, Mary Quant preceded him, and as she said, "It wasn't me or Courrèges - it was the girls in the street." Lacking a youth culture like London's, advanced French designers, such as Courrèges, used the future as a metaphor for youth. He is most famous for his "Space Age" designs - futuristic garments in crisp fabrics, worn with iconic accessories, such as the famous Courrèges boot.
Exhibitions:
- Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme
- Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT
- 50 Years of Fashion, 1947 - 1997
- Form Follows Fashion
- Fashion & Textile History Gallery First Rotation