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Zodiac

Jacket
late 1938-early 1939 (made)
Artist/Maker
Elsa Schiaparelli (designer)
Place of origin
Paris (designed)
London (made)

Long sleeved, high necked black silk jacket embroidered with starbursts of gilt strip and diamanté

Object details

Categories
Womenswear
Evening Wear
Embroidery
Fashion
Formal Wear
Object type
Jacket
TitleZodiac (named collection)
Materials and techniques
black silk crepe embroidered with gilt and diamanté
Silk Crepe
Gilt
Diamanté
Embroidery
Brief description
Elsa Schiaparelli. Black silk crepe evening or dinner jacket embroidered with gilt and diamante starbursts. Zodiac/Astrology Collection, Winter 1938/9.
Physical description
Long sleeved, high necked black silk jacket embroidered with starbursts of gilt strip and diamanté
Credit line
Given by Penny Mellor
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.211-2016

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Record createdNovember 17, 2016
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1372628/zodiac-jacket-elsa-schiaparelli/
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