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Woman's Dinner Jacket

Winter 1936-1937
Designed by Elsa Schiaparelli (French (born Italy), 1890–1973) Embroidered by Lesage, Paris (founded 1922)
The palm trees are based on those embroidered on the Emperor Napoleon's coronation costume of 1804. Marlene Dietrich purchased the same model.

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