Object: Set
Designer:
Geoffrey Beene
(1927 - 2004)
Date: Fall 1983
Medium: Wool, silk and wool charmeuse, lamé, and wool jersey
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Sally Kahan
Object number: 2013.29.2
DescriptionBlack set; coat and dress; collarless coat in reversible double faced wool with quilted gold wing motif at shoulders and back in silk and wool charmeuse edged in silver lame, on reverse side wing motif reverses to silver; coordinating long sleeve dress in wool jersey with quilted ivory wing motif at shoulders and back in silk and wool charmeuse edged in gold lame
Label Text:This jacket and dress set exemplifies how Geoffrey Beene adapted the detailed seaming, voluminous sleeves, and quilting of a nineteenth-century jacket into contemporary fashion. By the 1980s, design-by-adaptation was standard practice throughout the fashion industry.