2015.72.1

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Denim_23 Left and right 99.80.2 (corset), 98.83.1 (ensemble), 99.83.6 (coat ensemble), 2015.72.2 (dress), 2015.72.1 (jacket), 2015.66.1 (jeans), 2015.7.1 (ensemble), 2007.19.2 (black jeans), 2010.37.12 (dress), 2003.45.2 (ensemble), 2007.25.2 (bag)

Object: Jacket

Designer: Hussein Chalayan (born 1970)

Date: Fall/Winter 1999-2000

Medium: Cotton denim and silver metal

Country: England

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Object number: 2015.72.1

DescriptionJacket; dark blue cotton denim with yellow and dark blue topstitching; asymmetrical details; single breast pocket with flap; CF placket, back yoke, front waist darts, back princess seams, waistband; rolled half double collar; CF button closure, six silver metal stud buttons; adjustable button tab at right back; cuffed sleeves with one button stud closure; hidden pocket inside right front bodice

Label Text:For his 1999 “Echoform” collection, London-based designer Hussein Chalayan focused on the theme of memory. To express this in clothing, Chalayan chose the classic denim jacket, which he then reproduced in a series of different forms. As fashion historian Caroline Evans recounts, “Each had a section omitted, as if only part remembered, like a ghostly dress destroyed by its double, so that each dress bore traces of an earlier one.”

Exhibitions:

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
Denim: Fashion’s Frontier