Detail View: The AMICA Library: Dress

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.1994.9.3
AMICA Library Year: 
2000
Object Type: 
Costume and Jewelry
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 Date: 
fall/winter 1993 - 1994
Creation Start Date: 
1993
Creation End Date: 
1994
Materials and Techniques: 
acrylic
Classification Term: 
Main dress-Womenswear
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: 
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.

Related Image Identifier Link: 
MMA_.ci1994.9.3.R.tif