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Artist: Elsa Schiaparelli

Date: 1938

Museum: Victoria and Albert Museum (London, United Kingdom)

Technique: Metal

Four handmade, cast metal acrobat buttons leap from this bright pink fitted jacket by Schiaparelli. The heavy buttons are attached to the cloth with industrial slide hooks behind providing the actual fastenings. Such novel buttons and fastenings were a trademark of Schiaparelli