Coat
Designer
Sonia Rykiel
(1930 - 2016)
Retailer
Laura
c. 1965
Wool
Gift of Sandy Horvitz
Object number77.57.4
Sonia Rykiel got her start at Laura, a Left Bank boutique owned by her husband. Her first design was for a perfectly fitted sweater that would suit her slender figure. She soon became known as the “Queen of Knits,” and many of her early designs look modern even today.
DescriptionSelf striped cream wool double knit coat; open neck with yellow rib knit collar; low notched lapels; shelf yoke extending over shoulders with welt seaming in stitched in front princess seam; long sleeves; welt seam placed on slant on either side front; inverted welt seam from collar to hem at center back; sating lining; three button closing to waistExhibitions