Ensemble

Design House Vionnet S.p.A. Italian

spring/summer 2014

Not on view

In an homage to the act of creation, Hussein Chalayan drew on design-room vocabulary for his first collection at the recently revived house of Vionnet. For this ensemble the designer has re-created the humble dot-and-cross patternmaking paper used by seamstresses. The jacket is made of carefully crafted textile segments printed à la disposition (to correspond with the shaping of the garment) and pieced with embroidered silk organza. The underdress, with a finely pleated bodice that expands into soft folds around the hem, conjures the timeless garments of Madeleine Vionnet, while still displaying the modernity and intellectual rigor of a Chalayan design.

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Title: Ensemble
Design House: Vionnet S.p.A. (Italian, founded 2008)
Designer: Hussein Chalayan (British, born Cyprus, 1970)
Date: spring/summer 2014
Culture: French
Medium: Silk, synthetic, leather, metal, cotton
Credit Line: Gift of Goga Ashkenazi, Vionnet, 2014
Object Number: 2014.729a–f
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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