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17 juillet 2012

Mariano Fortuny. Evening jacket. Venice, Italy, ca. 1920

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Mariano Fortuny, born 1871 - died 1949. Evening jacket. Venice, Italy, ca. 1920. Printed velvet lined with silk and trimmed with silk braid. Given by Elizabeth Sarachi Milburn. Museum number: T.151-2004. Victoria & Albert Museum, London © V&A Images

The green velvet jacket is printed with a decorative design and is trimmed with silk braid. The jacket fastens at the neck with a tie and then flows open in a cape-like fashion to reveal the salmon pink lining.

This jacket was worn by Elizabeth Sarachi Milburn, who was a society figure with an excellent taste in fashionable dress. It is highly representative of Fortuny's use of luxurious fabrics and rich trimmings combined with his signature pleats.

The multi-talented Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) was a painter, theatre designer, photographer, inventor and scientist, although he is best known as a creator of extraordinary fabrics and clothes. His distinctive creations were worn by avant-garde beauties throughout the world from the 1910s to the 1930s. He based his textile patterns on historical designs and was especially fond of Renaissance motifs. By 1920 he had established a factory on the Guidecca in Venice as well as his original Palazzo Orfei workshops.

 

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