Suit
Pictured in a Cecil Beaton drawing in this restrained daytime suit, Mrs. Vreeland is the fashion editor of abstinent judgment. In subsequent memory and caricature, Mrs. Vreeland as editor has become limned chiefly by exaggerated enthusiasms and passionate declamation, but her own wardrobe was always that of chaste arbiter and careful executive.
Artwork Details
- Title: Suit
- Design House: House of Chanel (French, founded 1910)
- Designer: Gabrielle Chanel (French, Saumur 1883–1971 Paris)
- Date: 1936
- Culture: French
- Medium: wool
- Credit Line: Gift of Miss Diana Vreeland, 1956
- Object Number: C.I.56.25a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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House of Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel
1937
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