#7277 $850
Valentino embroidered lace jacket, 1970s
Valentino brings fashion flair to all his work, whether a glamorous evening dress or a special coat. The Valentino touch shows up in the eye-catching, full-surface embellishment of the unstructured jacket. His fashion agenda has always been single minded: "To make women beautiful." The mayor of Rome once said there were two famous people in Rome: the Pope and Valentino.
Like the simple flapper chemise of the 1920s, the unstructured jacket is the ideal canvas for textile art. The sublimely stylish jacket, dispensing with unnecessary seams and details, is a masterpiece of highly textured surface decoration, reminiscent of Émile Pingat, the grandmaster of the genre.
The jacket is fashioned from lightweight black floral lace embroidered all over with black ribbon flowers. The lace is backed with a lightweight lining. The edges are finished with black crepe binding. The jacket closes in front with fabric loops and fabric-covered buttons. The fibers are of silk, rayon, nylon and polyester.
Valentino's heart-rending, pretty elegance is like a fashion godmother's blessing. There is no other modern designer as accomplished as Garavani Valentino in the art of surface decoration. One would have to go back to the 1880s to find greater mastery of surface decoration.
The condition is almost excellent. The jacket just shows gentle wear.
The size is marked 44/10.
It measures: 40" bust, 32" waist, 40" hip, 15 1/2" from shoulder seam to shoulder
seam, 23 1/2" sleeve length, and 30" from shoulder to hem.
