Dress

Norma Kamali

ca. 1985 · cotton · Costume Institute

This day dress is one of the most significant Norma Kamali designs made using sweatshirt fabric. The appropriation of athletic material is reminiscent of Chanel's use of underwear knits in her early designs. The shape of the garment is evocative of the cocoon coats of the 1910s.

Artist

Norma Kamali

Date

ca. 1985

Medium

cotton

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jane Holzer, 1986