Jacket
From Schiaparelli's winter 1934 collection, this jacket design is realized in a rich brown moiré, the pattern of which appears like wood grain. The tree-trunk shaped buttons further the woodland theme, and are in keeping with Schiaparelli's propensity to employ playful closures in her designs. The fitted sleeves and rounded shoulders are an example of her focus on shoulders in the winter collection and the overall silhouette of the jacket, particularly the construction and triangular seaming of the back, references 19th-century women’s jackets.
Artwork Details
- Title: Jacket
- Designer: Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian, 1890–1973)
- Date: winter 1934
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk, plastic (cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate), wood composite
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent Huttleston Rogers, 1951
- Object Number: 2009.300.152a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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