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) - 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
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2019
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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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.
- 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.