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Steam iron handbag
(1990s)
- Medium
- leather, metal, synthetic fabric (lining)
- Measurements
- 12.0 × 31.5 × 15.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Accession Number
- 2015.79
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Bertocchi family, 2015
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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Franco Moschino’s surreal postmodern juxtapositions called out contemporary fashion fads in the form of ironic one-liners, printed or embroidered onto garments, and three-dimensional visual puns, realised as accessories. In 1989 Moschino’s first ready-to-wear collection was ironically called Moschino Couture! This iron-shaped handbag highlights the era’s materialism and gendered stereotypes with respect to fashion, while also exposing the gendered division of labour.