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Description: | Smart cocktail suit in cotton/viscose brocade with a burnt orange ground and geometric patterning in green, purple and tangerine. Fitted jacket, single breasted, with fronts dipping slightly cf; fastening with 4 very large facetted gilt buttons; no revers; horizontal seam across chest with different woven designs above and below, that above also comprising the sleeves and skirt; lined orange acetate; cerise woven label cb neck, 'Christian Lacroix, Paris'. Short skirt with vent; lined orange acetate.
Christian Lacroix worked as Chief Designer at Patou from 1981-7 when he set up his own House and label. He started ready to wear in 1989 and his Bazar line in 1995.
Technique: brocade
Material: cotton
Material: viscose
Material: acetate
Smart cocktail suit in cotton/viscose brocade with a burnt orange ground and geometric patterning in green, purple and tangerine. | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.42708 | Go to resource |
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