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Cape
Designer Andre Walker American
Manufacturer Pendleton Woolen Mills
Not on view
COMFORT 1. Contented enjoyment in physical or mental well-being, especially in freedom from want, anxiety, pain, or trouble:
Since his first collection in 1981, Andre Walker has become known for creating flat versions of garments cut freehand without a pattern. For spring/summer 2018, Walker reprised designs from 1982−86 using fabrics from Pendleton Woolen Mills. Constructed from the mill’s Glacier National Park blanket, this coat encases the body in its planar but malleable volumes. Its seeming two-dimensionality provides a canvas for the bold stripes and, like Korina Emmerich’s nearby design, recontextualizes the blanket’s historically problematic connotations.
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