Medium: Printed silk, black wool, black crepe back satin, off white wool, metal, white leather, and rubber

Date: Fall 2015

Country: France

Credit: Gift of CÉLINE

​Contrasting animal prints are tempered with a white harness sling bag that gives this ensemble the elegant balance that designer Phoebe Philo is known for. The appeal of animal patterns derives from their exotic, often sexual, connotations. Céline’s fall 2015 collection verged on the maximal, and addressed Philo’s ideas about the authenticity of glamour and sexuality.

Object Number: 2018.42.1