Suit

Gabrielle Chanel|House of Chanel

1936 · wool · Costume Institute

Pictured in a Cecil Beaton drawing in this restrained daytime suit, Mrs. Vreeland is the fashion editor of abstinent judgment. In subsequent memory and caricature, Mrs. Vreeland as editor has become limned chiefly by exaggerated enthusiasms and passionate declamation, but her own wardrobe was always that of chaste arbiter and careful executive.

Artist

Gabrielle Chanel|House of Chanel

Date

1936

Medium

wool

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Miss Diana Vreeland, 1956