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2016.047
Title
Façonnable Jacket
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Item
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1
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Name of creator
(1950-)
Administrative history
Façonnable was founded in Nice, France by tailor Jean Goldberg in 1950. He retired in 1961 and the business was taken over by his son Albert Goldberg who renamed the company 'Façonnable', based on the word 'façonner' meaning 'to shape'. He also shifted the business into men's ready-to-wear.
They opened stores across the French Riviera and in the 1970s began collaborating with American brands such as Sebago, Alden and Van's. They opened their first store in the United States in New York in 1993 and in 2001 were bought by Nordstrom, the US retailer. Façonnable was acquired by the Lebanon-based company M1 Group in 2007.
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Cotton jacket in dark green, red and blue. There are two wide horizontal inserted stripes of blue cotton across the front chest. The front body of the jacket is dark green and closes centre front with a zip and wide flap that closes with four green plastic buttons and a metal popper at the hem. It has two inserted pockets at the upper chest, closing with a button. There are two large flapped patch pockets (undersides blue) with piped edges and closing with a button to the the waist. The collar, sleeves and back of the jacket are red cotton. The cuffs fasten with two small red plastic buttons. The bottom hem is elasticated. The body is lined in light blue cotton, the sleeves in white cotton. Small plastic bag of replacement buttons found in the front right lower pocket (in Object File).
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Cotton
Condition: good
Condition: good
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SC.FA.1 - 2016