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Fashion Design

Album of Knitwear Design
1986-1996 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Little is known about Suzan Rooke, but she worked as a designer for Kenzo in Paris between 1986 and 1997. Her own company Rooke Design (active for approximately 18 years) was liquidated in 2008.

Kenzō Takada (1939-2020) is famous as one of the leading Western fashion designers of Japanese origin. His designs are known for being lively, colourful and combining multiple cultural references. The label is particularly renowned for its creative knitwear, much of which was designed in the late 1980s and late 1990s by Rooke.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFashion Design (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn on paper with pen and ink and coloured with pencil
Brief description
Suzan Rooke for Kenzo; design from an album of sketches in pen and ink and watercolour for various knitwear garments, 1986-1996
Physical description
Fashion design showing a woman wearing a colour floral patterned cardigan in blue, yellow, red, orange, pink and purple. Worn with a hat and skirt in white and black patterned with linear stylised decoration. With a colour swatch at left side of page.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.7cm
  • Width: 21cm
Style
Production typeDesign
Marks and inscriptions
[indecipherable] LO A/H '94-5
Credit line
Given by Suzan Rooke
Summary
Little is known about Suzan Rooke, but she worked as a designer for Kenzo in Paris between 1986 and 1997. Her own company Rooke Design (active for approximately 18 years) was liquidated in 2008.

Kenzō Takada (1939-2020) is famous as one of the leading Western fashion designers of Japanese origin. His designs are known for being lively, colourful and combining multiple cultural references. The label is particularly renowned for its creative knitwear, much of which was designed in the late 1980s and late 1990s by Rooke.
Collection
Accession number
E.598-2017

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Record createdAugust 7, 2017
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