ID: 700000088 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000088	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Coat (coat (garment); House of Chanel (French, founded 1913); Designer: Gabrielle ...; ca. 1927; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1984.30 )

Note: The convergence of Art Deco line, the modernist impulse to facilitate pure form, and Japonisme's potential to offer a vocabulary of untailored wrapping shapes was more than fortuitous. Chanel uses a French ombré textile with pattern sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion designers discovered from the East that untailored lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms for apparel.

Titles:

Coat (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Designer Coat (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

coat (garment) [300046143] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), clothing, main garments)

evening coat [300257524]

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), clothing, outerwear, overcoats (outerwear))

Classifications:

textiles (preferred)

European art

costume / clothing

Creation Date: ca. 1927

Creator Display:

House of Chanel (French, founded 1913); Designer: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (French, Saumur 1883–1971 Paris) [preferred,VP]

designers House of Chanel (French fashion house, founded 1913) Extent: design [500329589]

designer Chanel, Coco (French fashion designer, 1883-1971) Extent: design [500072500]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Département de Ville-de-Paris [7002980] (Geographic)

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1984.30

Credit Line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest and Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation, Hoechst Fiber Industries, in honor of Diana Vreeland, and Chauncy Stillman Gifts, 1984

Address Note: Not on view

Display Materials: silk with metallic threads

	silk (textile) [300243428]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

	thread [300014250]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by form>)

	sewing (needleworking technique) [300053658]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <processes and techniques by material>, textile processes and techniques, <textile working processes and techniques>, <needleworking and needleworking techniques>, needleworking (process))

	ombré [300266080]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Conditions and Effects (hierarchy name), <conditions and effects by specific type>, <conditions and effects for textiles>)

Dimensions: length at center back: 112 cm

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

apparel (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	fashion (culture-related concept) [300055811]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <culture and related concepts>, culture-related concepts) (AAT)

Marks: Marking: [label] "CHANEL"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Coat	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Designer Coat	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)