Coco Chanel 

 

 

 

Evening coat, ca. 1927
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (French, 1883–1971)
Silk, metallic thread
The Metropolitan museum of Art

The coat is from the art deco line she uses a French textile with pattern from Japanese kimono. The evening coat consist of three colours Black, White and Gold as highlight and richnesss to the fabric. The coat is very harmonic with the amount of balance and attention given to the perfect space. In the collar we find the three colours blocked in vertical given same space when seeing from the back. The coat consists of two layers of material on top of each other. The colours are continuous when they are layered. The black and white consists of the same amount of colour, in between the colours we find the gold in half of the amount given to the black or white. The black and the white are overlapping in between the gold to blend in the colours. All the garment is well spaced and given attention to have all same spacing. The coat is symmetrical.

 

 

Bibliography:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012, Evening Coat. [online] Available at: <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.30> [Accessed 17 November 2012]