Suit
Brand
Moschino
(Italian, founded 1983)
Fall 1989
Wool and gold metal
Museum purchase
Object number2020.6.1
Franco Moschino’s couture “dinner jacket” suit pokes fun at the formality of dressing for dinner by adapting the idea of a man’s dinner jacket for a women’s ensemble. While the strict black wool jacket recalls French waiters’ uniforms, the concept of dinner is driven home by golden forks, spoons, and knives that recall military insignia with Surrealist humor.
DescriptionBlack wool dinner suit; shoulders and front of jacket embellished with 14 gold metal forks, spoons, and knives; straight mini skirtExhibitions