Ensemble
Plaid shirt and printed silk dress
spring/summer 1993
Materials
silk, mother-of-pearl, metal
House / label
Perry Ellis
Collection
spring/summer 1993
Archive reference
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 2012.148a–c
Behind the design
A plaid shirt, printed dress and contrasting legwear create a deliberately mixed, casual-looking ensemble. FIT selects this exact object to illustrate grunge reaching the runway in Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 1993 collection for Perry Ellis. The Met records silk, mother-of-pearl and metal.
Look closer
Look at the clash between the red plaid shirt and the fruit-and-leaf print of the dress—and how silk gives this deliberately mismatched outfit a luxurious finish.
