Item 2022.14.2 - Christian Dior Monsieur Herringbone Jacket

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2022.14.2

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Christian Dior Monsieur Herringbone Jacket

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  • 1975-1979 (Creation)

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(1970-unknown)

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Designer Marc Bohan launched Christian Dior's first ready-to-wear men’s collection under the name Christian Dior Monsieur in 1970.

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(1962-unknown)

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Creations Fischer was a tailoring company and manufacturer primarily of menswear. It was started in Paris by Georges Fischer (1924-2021), a Jewish Hungarian tailor who had served his tailoring apprenticeship in Budapest as a teenager. After the Second World War he went to France as a refugee and worked for raincoat company Jupiter.

Creations Fischer had its main office and factory in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of Montmartre, and a tailoring factory 300km outside of Paris in Buzançais. They sold direct to stores in the French capital, one of their first clients was the high-end Parisian menswear store Arnys. Dior approached Georges Fischer when they wanted to set up a menswear line in the late 1960s and he designed and manufactured Christian Dior Monsieur. He then also created menswear and tailoring for other companies including Givenchy, Charvet, and Hermès.

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Single breasted tailored jacket that fastens with two buttons. It is made of a herringbone stripe woven pattern in cream and dark grey brown wool. The jacket has a long lapel, two flapped and jetted pockets to the waist and an angled welted pocket to the left chest. It has three buttons at each cuff (one missing on the left). The lining is grey brown rayon woven with a 'CD' motif. It has buttoning jetted inside chest pockets to both sides, a small jetted pen pocket and a lower jetted pocket to the left side of the inside front. Label to the left inside chest.

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      Label: Christian Dior / MONSIEUR PARIS
      Good condition: the jacket has been unstitched along the lining and collar seam to the right hand side and along the underarm lining seam. Large hole to left outer arm near elbow, one left cuff button missing, small hole to left side seam near hem, three holes to outer right arm at shoulder.

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