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Jacket
Designed by: Rei Kawakubo (Japanese, born in 1942)
Designed for: Comme des Garçons, Ltd. (Japanese, founded in 1969)
Designed for: Comme des Garçons, Ltd. (Japanese, founded in 1969)
Japanese
Autumn/Winter 1991
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
wool plainweave; PVC
Dimensions
Center back: 68.6 cm (27 in.)
Credit Line
Frank B. Bemis Fund, William E. Nickerson Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Frederick Brown Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, and Alice M. Barlett Fund
Accession Number2017.4325
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Contemporary Art, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionWoman's jacket of grey wool, cut like a man's suit jacket; notched lapels faced with wool interlining material, covered with clear PVC, topstitched in place; long set-in sleeves, two non functional buttons at wrists; grey polyester satin lined flap pockets at hips; no vent at rear; jacket wraps left-over-right, and closes with single button at abdomen, securing to grey polyester satin flap eminating from PL chest; label at CB neck: "Comme des Garçons" and size label "s," additional fabric content/care labels at PL interior waist seam.
ProvenanceBy 2017, Cynthea J. Bogel, Tieton, WA; 2017, sold by Cynthea J. Bogel to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)