Creator Description: House of Chanel
(French, founded 1913)
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Identity:House of Chanel Role:designer
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Creation Date:
ca. 1927 Earliest:1922 Latest:1932
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Creation Place/Original Location: Paris
(France)
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Measurements
Dimensions Description: length at
center back: 112 cm (44 inches)
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Dimensions Extent: center back
Value: 112 Unit: cm Type:
length
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Materials and Techniques
Description: silk with metallic threads
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Material Names:
metallic
threads
silk
Technque Names:
sewing
ombré
(textiles)
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Inscriptions/Marks
Transcription or Description: label:
CHANEL
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Subject Matter
Indexing Terms:
apparel
fashion
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Descriptive Note
Text: The convergence of Art Deco
line, the modernist impulse to facilitate pure form,
and Japonisme's potential to offer a vocabulary of
untailored wrapping shapes was more than fortuitous.
Chanel uses a French ombré textile with pattern
sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it
the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion
designers discovered from the East that untailored
lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the
cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms
for apparel.
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Citation: Metropolitan Museum of Art online Page: accessed 24 July 2005
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Current Location
Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United
States) Repository Number:
1984.30
