2000.108.1

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MinMax_41 Left to right 2000.108.1 (ensemble), 2004.49.4 (dress), 2011.18.10 (coat ensemble), 2014.61.3 (ensemble), 2018.12.40 (blue ensemble), 2018.12.23 (bag), 2008.77.1 (dress), 2017.1.1 (backpack), 2000.32.7 (ensemble), 2006.7.3 (suit), 97.36.3 (black gown), 2008.80.3 (coat), 2009.32.1 (dress), 2001.65.1 (dress wall)

MinMax_17 Left to right 2000.108.1 (ensemble), 2004.49.4 (dress), 2011.18.10 (coat ensemble), 2014.61.3 (ensemble), 2018.12.40 (blue ensemble), 2018.12.23 (bag)

Object: Set

Designer: Larry LeGaspi (born 1951)

Date: 1979

Medium: Leather

Country: USA

Credit Line: Gift of Valerie LeGaspi

Object number: 2000.108.1

DescriptionBlack leather futuristic, disco style vest and pants; cropped, zippered vest with V-cut armholes and thick trapunto stand collar and V-yoke; pants with peg leg gathered into trapunto hip yoke

Label Text:This leather ensemble with trapunto stitching projects an exuberance and sexual ambiguity typical of glam-rock style. Larry LeGaspi was a pioneer of the futuristic look of the 70s and early 80s. With his fall 2019 collection, designer Rick Owens paid homage to LeGaspi, saying that he “introduced a camp ferocity to the mainstream . . . with his art deco sexual ambiguity and raw, black leather bombast.”

In Collection(s)

1970s

Exhibitions:

Minimalism / Maximalism: Fashion Extremes