Object: Ensemble
Designer:
John Galliano
(born 1960)
Date: Spring 1992
Medium: Cotton muslin, striped dupioni silk, and grey stretch satin
Country: England
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2017.80.2
DescriptionEnsemble; cotton muslin 3/4 length jacket with semi attached under jacket in red and white striped dupioni with floral jacquard lapels; grey stretch satin breeches
Label Text:Throughout his career, John Galliano has repeatedly created fashions evoking the Incroyables (the Incredible ones) and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses. Contrary to popular belief, most Incroyables were not royalists or aristocrats. Rather, they were among Paris’s “gilded youth” who now felt free to abandon sober clothes in favor of extreme fashions, which would have been highly dangerous during the radical phase of the French Revolution.
Exhibitions:
- Paris, Capital of Fashion
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties