Object: Jacket
Designer:
Rick Owens
(born 1962)
Retailer:
Henri Bendel
(American, 1895 - 2019)
Date: 1998
Medium: Cotton duck
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Rebecca Pietri
Object number: 2006.25.1
DescriptionDeconstructed military style jacket in olive green drab cotton duck, worn and patched; cardigan style neck, cropped above hip; sides and sleeves pieced and shaped with diagonal seams; stylized flapped cargo pockets; three large brown buttons
Label Text:Rick Owens’s early designs were often made from inexpensive materials he salvaged from thrift shops and army surplus stores. Jackets such as this one were handmade from deconstructed army bags. Speaking about the process of hand craftsmanship, the designer explained, “When you are an experimental label, there has to be a humanness in everything you do.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- Fashion Unraveled