Object: Coat
Brand:
Calvin Klein
(American, founded 1968)
Designer:
Francisco Costa
(born 1964)
Date: Spring 2009
Medium: Silk and Lucite
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Calvin Klein, Inc.
Object number: 2010.52.2
DescriptionWhite textured silk oversize collarless coat with two large clear Lucite hooks at curved off center front closure; one-piece raglan sleeve and yoke at front and back; above knee length; 3/4 length sleeve; front and back semi princess seams with pegged skit pocket at lower panel; large tailor button holes without welt at front closure; fagoting stitch at seams, seams lay tightly together unlike traditional fagotting the effect has a lacey semi open look
Label Text:Francisco Costa’s spring 2009 collection was a meditation on cubes and prismatic forms. The architectural silhouette of this coat projects a clean geometry commonly associated with minimalist art. By the mid-2000s, a “new austerity” had entered fashion, which was described by journalist Harriet Walker as being “concerned with an architectural purity.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Minimalism / Maximalism: Fashion Extremes