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Dark blue denim button front jacket with yellow topstitching over matching knee length dress
jacket
Dark blue denim button front jacket with yellow topstitching over matching knee length dress
2015.72.1 (jacket) and 2015.72.2 (dress)
Jacket
Designer (born 1970)
Fall/Winter 1999-2000
Cotton denim and silver metal
Museum purchase
Object number2015.72.1
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.”
DescriptionJacket; dark blue cotton denim with yellow and dark blue topstitching; asymmetrical details; single breast pocket with flap; CF placket, back yoke, front waist darts, back princess seams, waistband; rolled half double collar; CF button closure, six silver metal stud buttons; adjustable button tab at right back; cuffed sleeves with one button stud closure; hidden pocket inside right front bodice
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