2015.72.2

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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: Dress

Designer: Hussein Chalayan (born 1970)

Date: Fall/Winter 1999-2000

Medium: Cotton denim

Country: England

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Object number: 2015.72.2

DescriptionDress; variation on A-line sleeveless dress in indigo cotton denim with yellow and dark blue topstitching; rolled half collar; bust and waist darts, back princess seams; overlapping V-neckline at front; flap pocket at right bodice; pleat at CF; invisible zipper closure at left side seam

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