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Dress

Designer Norma Kamali American
ca. 1985
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Designer: Norma Kamali (American, born 1945)
  • Date: ca. 1985
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: cotton
  • Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jane Holzer, 1986
  • Object Number: 2009.300.2924a–c
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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