Set
Designer
Geoffrey Beene
(1927 - 2004)
Fall 1983
Wool, silk and wool charmeuse, lamé, and wool jersey
Gift of Sally Kahan
Object number2013.29.2
This jacket and dress set exemplifies how Geoffrey Beene adapted the detailed seaming, voluminous sleeves, and quilting of a nineteenth-century jacket into contemporary fashion. By the 1980s, design-by-adaptation was standard practice throughout the fashion industry.
DescriptionBlack set; coat and dress; collarless coat in reversible double faced wool with quilted gold wing motif at shoulders and back in silk and wool charmeuse edged in silver lame, on reverse side wing motif reverses to silver; coordinating long sleeve dress in wool jersey with quilted ivory wing motif at shoulders and back in silk and wool charmeuse edged in gold lame