Fashion Nerds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Object record

Dress

1975–76

Materials

cotton/rayon blend

House / label

Diane von Furstenberg

Collection

1975–76

Archive reference

1997.487

Behind the design

The Met situates this wrap dress within a longer American sportswear tradition of wrapping the body. Von Furstenberg renewed that established idea through the colors and fabrics of the 1970s; this example is catalogued as a cotton/rayon blend.

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