79.66.40

Images (13)

MinMax_15 76.123.1 (dress), 79.66.40 (jumpsuit)

Body_16 Left to right 2017.20.1 (dress), 2002.16.1 (black dress), 79.66.40 (jumpsuit), 85.109.9 (unitard), 89.64.51 (ensemble), 88.134.28 (jacket), 91.256.1 (sweater), 2001.23.1 (shirt)

Body_17 Left to right 2017.20.1 (dress), 2002.16.1 (black dress), 79.66.40 (jumpsuit), 85.109.9 (unitard), 89.64.51 (ensemble), 88.134.28 (jacket), 91.256.1 (sweater), 2001.23.1 (shirt)

Body_18 Left to right 2017.20.1 (dress), 2002.16.1 (black dress), 79.66.40 (jumpsuit), 85.109.9 (unitard), 89.64.51 (ensemble), 88.134.28 (jacket), 91.256.1 (sweater), 2001.23.1 (shirt)

YSL+Halston_29 Left to right 91.235.4 (halter dress), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 82.3.5 (purple dress), 91.241.47 (fur jacket), 88.29.362 (dress), 76.69.17 (blue dress), 80.128.12 (white dress)

YSL+Halston_13 Left to right 91.41.12 (blue ensemble), P89.55.4 (paisley ensemble), 86.126.14 (purple grey dress), 91.41.1 (floral dress), 91.104.1 (white dress), 91.235.4 (halter dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit)

YSL+Halston_16 Left to right 91.104.1 (white dress), 91.235.4 (halter dress), 82.3.5 (purple dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit)

YSL+Halston_20 Left to right 91.104.1 (white dress hidden), 91.235.4 (halter dress), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 82.3.5 (purple dress)

YSL+Halston_25 Left to right 91.41.1 (floral dress), 86.126.14 (purple grey dress), P89.55.4 (paisley ensemble), 91.41.12 (blue ensemble), 2014.28.1 (pink dress), 93.1.26 (top and skirt), 91.104.1 (white dress), 91.235.4 (halter dress), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 82.3.5 (purple dress)

YSL+Halston_26 Left to right 88.89.1 (high neck gown), 76.201.2 (velvet dress), 2010.86.37 (dress), 92.222.7 (green dress), 88.73.1 (printed silk ensemble), 78.57.9 (pink jacket and skirt), 79.66.40 (black jumpsuit), 88.1.69 (orange dress), 87.146.27 (floral dress), 82.3.5 (purple dress)

Body_19 79.66.40 (jumpsuit), 85.109.9 (unitard), 89.64.51 (ensemble)

Object: Jumpsuit

Designer: Halston (1932 - 1990)

Date: c. 1976

Medium: Silk jersey

Country: USA

Credit Line: Gift of Ethel Scull

Object number: 79.66.40

DescriptionBlack silk jersey jumpsuit with halter neck

Label Text:The silk jersey of this jumpsuit skims the curves of the wearer’s body and facilitates freedom of movement. The body is even more exposed by the size of the cutouts. Halston’s minimalist fashions—fluid and deceptively simple in construction—were favored by the trendsetting crowd at Studio 54. His close friend and mentor, the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, wrote that “Halston understood the drape of fabric and the body’s movement beneath it; he understood elegance.”

Exhibitions:

Minimalism / Maximalism: Fashion Extremes
Trend-ology
Halston: Absolute Modernism, Retrospective and Minimalism
Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s
The Body: Fashion and Physique