Coat

Designer Christian Lacroix French

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Mrs. Kempner's jackets, coats, and ensembles from Christian Lacroix are in the designer's signature style. Lacroix, famed as a master collagist of materials, employs the entire spectrum of the artisanal tradesmen, les petites mains, who are responsible for the embroidery, trimming, and other handwork of haute-couture embellishment. Lacroix's fascination with nineteenth-century dress styles still persistent in traditional regional costume emerges in both the silhouettes of his garments and their applied patterning.

Coat, Christian Lacroix (French, born 1951), wool, French

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