Jacket
Designer
Hussein Chalayan
(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 bodiceExhibitions