Hall of Mirrors, jacket and dress
1938 {Zodiac collection, autumn–winter 1938–39}
Medium
silk (velvet), plastic (buttons), glass (beads, sequins), metallic thread, metal (fastenings), silk (lining)
Measurements
(a) 56.5 cm (centre back) 69.0 cm (sleeve length) (jacket)
(b) 149.0 cm (centre back) 32.5 cm (waist, flat) (dress)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2019
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
The Anne-Marie of France boutique opened on the ground floor of Paris’s Hôtel Meurice in the late 1940s, selling a variety of women’s accessories. The shop specialised in witty and surreal novelty handbags designed to look like a variety of everyday objects such as champagne buckets, telephones, cocktail bars, hands of playing cards or boxes of Chesterfield cigarettes.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
(a) label, right seamline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: Schiaparelli / London.
inscribed in blue pen and ink on reverse: 6918
(b) label, lower left seamline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: Schiaparelli / London.
inscribed in blue pen and ink on reverse: 6918
Accession Number
2019.461.a-b
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest
Physical description
Black silk velvet dress and jacket.
(a) The black velvet jacket is ornamented at front with trompe l’oeil gold and silver mirrors over each side front, with centres of rectangular mirror and glass beads. The ornamentation features gold and silver metallic thread and glass sequins at neckline. The jacket fastens with five black moulded buttons of a woman’s face, fastening with metallic hooks and eyes behind. The shoulders are padded with shirring across each side from. The jacket is lined in silk lining.
(b) Floor length black velvet dress with high front neckline and low back neckline. It fastens with a black zipper at proper left side back.