Suit

John Stephen

ca. 1968 · wool · Costume Institute

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.

Artist

John Stephen

Date

ca. 1968

Medium

wool

Culture

British

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Stuart Steven Brody, 1994