Ensemble
Designer
John Galliano
(British, born 1960)
Spring 1992
Cotton muslin, striped dupioni silk, and grey stretch satin
Museum purchase
Object number2017.80.2
Throughout his career, John Galliano has repeatedly created fashions evoking the Incroyables (the Incredible ones) and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses. Contrary to popular belief, most Incroyables were not royalists or aristocrats. Rather, they were among Paris’s “gilded youth” who now felt free to abandon sober clothes in favor of extreme fashions, which would have been highly dangerous during the radical phase of the French Revolution.
DescriptionEnsemble; cotton muslin 3/4 length jacket with semi attached under jacket in red and white striped dupioni with floral jacquard lapels; grey stretch satin breechesExhibitions