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Suit: jacket and skirt
Wool crepe
French, circa 1986
Woven label: "Thierry Mugler/Paris"
Gift of Denny Stone, 99.25.3ab
"Whether aggressively vulgar or caricatures of sobriety, Mugler's designs are consistently body conscious. His clothes can be read as essays in the aesthetic potential of extreme proportions; shoulder widths three times head height, wasp waists, and panniered hips are among the repertoire of distortions and exaggerations of the human figure to be found among his designs." ... Gregory Votolato, 1999This suit clearly illustrates the author's remarks. The jacket's 23" shoulder width and its cinched and peplumed waist caricature the business suit, pushing to extremes a dress form originally adopted for its sense of sobriety.
