Object: Evening skirt
Brand:
Perry Ellis, Inc
(American, founded 1978)
Designer:
Marc Jacobs
(born 1963)
Date: 1992
Medium: Painted cotton organdy
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Perry Ellis Inc.
Object number: 92.26.1
DescriptionThe Oscar Skirt: heavy white cotton organdy hand painted ankle length bell skirt with multiple Oscar figures in brown, ochre yellow and gold tone metallic, each with an actor's name on plaque, strips of film in grey tones around skirt hem, gathered into satin waistband
Label Text:The Oscar statuettes that adorn this skirt were hand-painted from sketches by Marc Jacobs, as were the filmstrips featuring famous actors. After Cindy Crawford wore the skirt on the runway in New York, Perry Ellis, Inc. was threatened with a lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Faking It: Originals, Copies, and Counterfeits
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties