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Ensemble: dress, belt, capelet, and slip
Not on view
Throughout her career Gabrielle Chanel
challenged dominant modes of women’s
dress by producing garments that emphasize
comfort and ease of movement through
perfection of fit and simplicity of line. By
the 1930s her silhouettes had softened into
romantic forms inspired by lingerie, evidenced
by this gown, which resembles a slip. The sheer
overlay is embroidered with stars, a recurring
motif in Chanel designs that scholars have
variously attributed to mosaic tiling Chanel
saw at an abbey in France and popular interest
in astrology during the thirties.
- Designers
- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971)
- Artist
- House of Chanel
- Title
- Ensemble: dress, belt, capelet, and slip
- Date
- 1939
- Place of Creation
- Paris
- Object Type
- Costume
- Medium
- Silk net with silk machine embroidery and silk crêpe
- Dimensions
- 53 x 30 in., (134.62 x 76.2 cm,)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. C.H. Russell
- Accession Number
- 1983.63.13a-d
