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Perry Ellis · fall/winter 1978−79
Perry Ellis
- American sportswear
- Coordinated separates
- Relaxed elegance
Perry Ellis developed an American sportswear label established in 1978. His surviving clothes include silk dresses, wool pieces and coordinated separates from the following decade.
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fall/winter 1978−79
A lettered wool sweater and pleated skirt form part of Perry Ellis’s fall/winter 1978–79 ensemble.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Plaid wool suit
Fall/winter 1981–82
This plaid wool jacket and pleated skirt belong to Perry Ellis’s fall/winter 1981–82 collection. FIT identifies the suit as a preppy revival of late-1940s and early-1950s collegiate dressing. The coordinated plaid and fitted jacket translate familiar campus clothing into a designer wardrobe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; reproduced by FIT Fashion History Timeline. Gift of Roz Gerten Jacobs, 1996.
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Suit
1984 · The Met collection
Wool.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Coat
1982 · The Met collection
Wool.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Suit
ca. 1980 · The Met collection
Cotton.
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCollections & archive pieces
2 collections represented · 2 piecesfall/winter 1978−79
1 piece
Fall/winter 1981–82
1 piece
Plaid wool suit
Perry Ellis · Fall/winter 1981–82
About Perry Ellis
These objects document the original designer’s work before his death in 1986; later garments made under the Perry Ellis label require attribution to the designers who succeeded him.