Dress
Designer
Hussein Chalayan
(born 1970)
Fall/Winter 1999-2000
Cotton denim
Museum purchase
Object number2015.72.2
For his 1999 “Echoform” collection, London-based designer Hussein Chalayan focused on the theme of memory. To express this in clothing, Chalayan chose the classic denim jacket, which he then reproduced in a series of different forms. As fashion historian Caroline Evans recounts, “Each had a section omitted, as if only part remembered, like a ghostly dress destroyed by its double, so that each dress bore traces of an earlier one.”
DescriptionDress; variation on A-line sleeveless dress in indigo cotton denim with yellow and dark blue topstitching; rolled half collar; bust and waist darts, back princess seams; overlapping V-neckline at front; flap pocket at right bodice; pleat at CF; invisible zipper closure at left side seamExhibitions