Object: Man's ensemble
Brand:
Matsuda
(Japanese)
Designer:
Yukio Kabayashi
(born 1951)
Date: 1992
Medium: Hand-painted off-white silk, slubbed silk, and nylon
Country: Japan
Credit Line: Gift of Matsuda U.S.A., Inc.
Object number: 92.219.1
DescriptionOff white silk man's ensemble: Hand painted jacket in yellow and green; matching shirt; coordinating yellow / green slubbed silk pants; off white nylon suspenders
Label Text:The fabric of this one-of-a-kind suit was made with a kimono dyeing technique of stretching and hand-painting the silk before it is cut. It is similar to a style worn by B-52’s musician Fred Schneider for the environmental charity auction “Don’t Bungle the Jungle,” which was featured on MTV’s House of Style in 1992.
Exhibitions:
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- Japan Fashion Now