Skirt Suit
c.2000 (designed and made)
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Skirt suit in fuchsia pink wool lined with silk satin. The jacket has three artist-designed metal and pink enamel buttons. Decorative blanket-stitching edges the collar. Pocket flaps extend from the front panels of the jacket (the actual pockets appear to be sewn up, or non-functional) . Knee-length pencil skirt.
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Materials and techniques | wool lined with silk satin, metal and enamel buttons. |
Brief description | Tomasz Starzewski, London, c.2000. Fuchsia pink wool skirt suit with Paris artisan-designed buttons. |
Physical description | Skirt suit in fuchsia pink wool lined with silk satin. The jacket has three artist-designed metal and pink enamel buttons. Decorative blanket-stitching edges the collar. Pocket flaps extend from the front panels of the jacket (the actual pockets appear to be sewn up, or non-functional) . Knee-length pencil skirt. |
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Credit line | Given by the family of the late Baroness Thatcher |
Object history | Mrs. Thatcher ceased to be Prime Minister in 1990, when she was succeeded by John Major as leader of the Conservative Party. She became Baroness Thatcher in 1992. The Baroness retained and maintained her strong sense of style, regularly buying clothing from the designer Tomasz Starzewski (b.1961), whose family came to the United Kingdom as political refugees from Poland in 1947. Starzewski custom-made a fuchsia pink suit with decorative blanket-stitching and artist-designed metal buttons for Thatcher. It was a colour that Thatcher wore quite regularly as it was her husband Denis's favourite. She notably wore the suit on 11 March 2004 to attend the Women of Achievement Reception held at Buckingham Palace, London, although she may well have owned it for a while previously, as Denis had died the previous year and this was donated as having been one of his favourite outfits to see his wife wearing. Formal portrait photographs of Thatcher taken at the event on 11 March 2004 clearly show that the decorative blanket-stitching on the side of the collar had already come slightly adrift at the time she wore it. We have therefore decided to leave the stitching exactly as it was, rather than re-adjust it to sit in the intended alignment. - Daniel Milford-Cottam 19/10/2016 |
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Accession number | T.1595:1&2-2017 |
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Record created | September 27, 2016 |
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