Object: Set
Date: Spring 1996
Medium: Slubbed silk
Country: Germany
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William McCormick Blair Jr.
Object number: 96.123.3
DescriptionSilver grey slubbed silk pants set with short sleeve shirt and wide, cuffed pants
Label Text:Jil Sander has described her aesthetic as pure. Influenced by the functionality of Bauhaus, the German art school movement of the 1920s, her minimalist style marries luxurious fabrics with classic shapes. Called the “queen of less,” Sander says, “for me it was all about form, function and proportion. I never just wanted to decorate.”
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
- Minimalism / Maximalism: Fashion Extremes