Designed by Jean Paul Gaultier / Dress / fall/winter 1993

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Creator Name: Gaultier, Jean Paul
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: French, born 1952
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Jean Paul Gaultier
Title: Dress
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1993
Creation End Date: 1994
Creation Date: fall/winter 1993 - 1994
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Classification Term: Main dress-Womenswear
Materials and Techniques: acrylic
Dimensions: L. at center back 60 in. (152 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1994.9.3
Credit Line: Purchase, Gifts from various donors, 1994
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Sweaters are ostensibly about warmth, but these two of the 1990s are more conceptual than cozy, sacrificing a toasty warm wrap to a more delicate idea of deconstruction.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1994.9.3
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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