Jacket

Elsa Schiaparelli

winter 1934 · silk, plastic (cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate), wood composite · Costume Institute

From Schiaparelli's winter 1934 collection, this jacket design is realized in a rich brown moiré, the pattern of which appears like wood grain. The tree-trunk shaped buttons further the woodland theme, and are in keeping with Schiaparelli's propensity to employ playful closures in her designs. The fitted sleeves and rounded shoulders are an example of her focus on shoulders in the winter collection and the overall silhouette of the jacket, particularly the construction and triangular seaming of the back, references 19th-century women’s jackets.

Artist

Elsa Schiaparelli

Date

winter 1934

Medium

silk, plastic (cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate), wood composite

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 Millicent Huttleston Rogers, 1951