• Ungaro, Emanuel. (1933-2019) Design for a Jacket and Pant ensemble
  • Ungaro, Emanuel. (1933-2019) Design for a Jacket and Pant ensemble

Ungaro, Emanuel. (1933-2019) Design for a Jacket and Pant ensemble

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Ungaro, Emanuel. (1933-2019)
Design for a Jacket and Pant ensemble
Pencil, colored inks and pastel on paper

Original drawing, ca. 1980, from the Italian-born French fashion designer, signed at the lower left. The design shows an ensemble of a leopard-print coat with purple cuffs, a black skirt and a black pillbox hat, executed in pencil, colored inks and pastel. In very fine condition. 8.25 x 13.75 inches (21 x 35 cm).

Ungaro founded the House of Ungaro in 1965 but entered perhaps his most influential period in the 1980s, as he interpreted the era's aggressive, broad-shouldered women's silhouette with Edwardian-style shirring, ruching, draping, and his trademark eye-catching prints to create a voluptuous, very feminine, even coquettish look that was highly popular with the public. “I hate boring clothes,” he told The Washington Post in 1977. “I hate seeing women dressed in a sad way.”  Mr. Ungaro explained his approach to design in 1994, when he opened a boutique in Manhattan.

“If you want to exist in fashion, and in any other manifestation of art, you have to disturb people,” he told The New York Times. “Provocation, in my mouth, means disturbing to the eye. Not disturb just to disturb, but disturb by showing something unexpected.”


From the collection of fashion historian and journalist June Weir-Baron (1928–2015), the first woman Vice President at Fairchild Publications, a major force in her capacity as Fashion Editor and Assistant publisher of Women's Wear Daily and W. She made news as key editor at Vogue, as Executive Fashion Editor at Harper's Bazaar, deputy Style Editor for The New York Times Sunday Magazine and Contributing Editor at Mirabella.