Dress
This parachute coat by Jonathan Anderson was designed for the storied house of Loewe, a Spanish purveyor of leather luxury goods that was founded in the nineteenth century. By 1945 the house had expanded to include clothing, and in 2013 Jonathan Anderson assumed creative direction of the brand. Anderson’s spring/summer 2020 collection for Loewe was inspired by historical craft and the precision found in the construction of 16th and 17th century garments. This parachute coat borrows heavily from the period, notably through billowing sleeves that conjure garments such as the cuculla, a choir robe associated with the Cistercian order of monks, and the oversized collar of the Pierrot, a mime-type stock character of the Commedia dell’arte and Comédie-Italienne.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dress
- Design House: LOEWE (Spanish, founded 1846)
- Designer: Jonathan Anderson (British, born 1984)
- Date: spring/summer 2020
- Culture: Spanish
- Medium: synthetic fabric, cotton
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2021
- Object Number: 2022.34
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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