Ensemble

fall/winter 2008–9

Not on view

The hidden supportive understructures of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century womenswear inform the work of contemporary designers, who have translated inner layers of shaping into outer ornament. Here, Jean Paul Gaultier’s lace wedding dress is accompanied by a cage crinoline of mid-nineteenth-century proportions that has been reconceived as an extravagant veil.

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Title: Ensemble
Couture Line: Gaultier Paris (French, founded 1997)
Designer: Jean Paul Gaultier (French, born 1952)
Date: fall/winter 2008–9
Culture: French
Medium: nylon, rayon, silk, leather, metal
Credit Line: Gift of Jean Paul Gaultier, in honor of Harold Koda, 2016
Object Number: 2016.561a–c
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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