Suit

ca. 1968

Not on view

John Stephen was a Savile Row tailor whose innovative work in men's fashion earned him the nickname "the King of Carnaby Street." The suit is an example of the mod style that originated on Carnaby Street in London, when that city was the center of men’s and women’s fashion in the mid-1960s to early 1970s.

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Title: Suit
Designer: John Stephen (British, born Scotland, 1934–2004)
Date: ca. 1968
Culture: British
Medium: wool
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Stuart Steven Brody, 1994
Object Number: 2009.300.1068a, b
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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