Button

Elsa Schiaparelli|Jean Clemént|Roger Jean-Pierre

1938 · glass, metal · Costume Institute

Several of these buttons and fasteners were shown in "A Slice of Schiaparelli: Surrealism in Fashion from the Brooklyn Museum." Patricia Mears names and dates them as follows: "Tinsel Candlestick" jacket fasteners, winter 1937-38 "Playing Card" emblem buttons, fall-winter 1939 "Ship Tacking Hinge" jacket pins, ca. 1935 "Crown" button, fall 1937 "Victorian mirror" suit pins, spring 1938 "Cricket" jacket pins, fall 1938

Artist

Elsa Schiaparelli|Jean Clemént|Roger Jean-Pierre

Date

1938

Medium

glass, metal

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, 1955