Under the Hammer
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Some very collectable vintage Richard James is going under the hammer next week at Kerry Taylor Auctions in London.
Firstly (Lots 145 and 146), there are two embroidered silk-blend Nehru jackets, one in yellow (above) and one in blue (bottom), from the Spring/Summer '90 Cecil Beaton collection, which we showed at the Opera-Comique in Paris. Katherine Hamnett and Paul Smith were the other Brits there, we remember.
The chest and shoulder of the jackets are embroidered with a winding green silk rose-briar blooming with three-dimensional buds of pink organdie. Richard's inspiration came from the beflowered jacket Beaton wore to a fête champêtre he hosted at his country house, Ashcombe, in 1937, where he was famously photographed by Gordon Anthony (below).
The V&A holds the same jackets and exhibited them in its March '97 The Cutting Edge: Fifty Years of British Fashion exhibition.
And then (Lot 147) there are two intarsia knits (top) from 1990 or thereabouts, the blue one of which was inspired by a tea service that Salvador Dali designed in 1938 for Royal Crown Derby. Again, the V&A holds both pieces.
The Male Sale is at Kerry Taylor Auctions on Tuesday 14th October at 2pm.
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