Dress
In the early 1960s, Jack Lenor Larson, the well-known textile designer, created a successful, but short-lived line of men's and women's clothing under the label "JL Arbiter." This dress reflects Larson's wit as a textile designer: rather than employ actual center front and center back seams, Larson lines up the chevron pattern in the textile so as to create trompe l'oeil seams, instead.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Design House: JL Arbiter
- Designer: Jack Lenor Larsen (American, Seattle, Washington 1927–2020 East Hampton, New York)
- Date: 1960–61
- Culture: American
- Medium: linen
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, 1961
- Object Number: 2009.300.306a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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