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Ensemble

late 1988 (designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Design Responses Ltd. (manufacturer)
Cartwright, Susannah (textile designer)
Agar, Eileen (textile designer)
Place of origin
London (designed and made)

Bright blue cotton jacket and dress with a coloured surrealist/abstract print in yellow, red, white, and other colours


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Fashion
Day Wear
Womenswear
Lace
Object type
Ensemble
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Jacket
  • Dress
Materials and techniques
Hand screen printed cotton with lace
Cotton (Textile)
Lace Making
Printed
Brief description
Jacket and dress, made by Design Responses Ltd., made from textile designed by Susannah Cartwright in collaboration with Eileen Agar and hand screen printed by Cartwright, London, late 1988
Physical description
Bright blue cotton jacket and dress with a coloured surrealist/abstract print in yellow, red, white, and other colours
Credit line
Given by Miranda Mackintosh and Jenny Fraser
Object history
This outfit was designed and made for the book launch of painter Eileen Agar's (1899-1991) autobiography 'A Look at My Life' (1988). Agar was friends with translator and surrealist writer and artist Michael Bullock (1918-2008), who introduced Agar to his granddaughter, Susannah Cartwright (born 1965), a textile designer. Agar invited Cartwright to work on an outfit for the book launch. This turned into a collaboration; the pair looked through Agar's portfolios for inspiration for the textile design, which was finalised by Cartwright. Cartwright hand screen printed the cotton textile which was used for the outfit, which was made by Richmond-based company Design Responses Ltd.. Agar wore the dress for the book launch, and also when interviewed by Jonathan Ross on The Last Resort in 1988.

See Registered File number 1992/910.
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.353:1, 2-1992

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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