42. Fashion in Focus: The Puffer Coat

Welcome to Unravel's new minisode series: Fashion in Focus. Each FIF will detail the brief history of a garment, accessory or textile. In this FIF Dana comes to you from Iowa and discusses the history of the puffer coat. 

Image: Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat advertisement, 1980.

Shout out to the  #fashionnerd winner @miriammurphyconservation of our Instagram trivia question from our Saturday post of the 1992 Spring/Summer Fendi runway show featuring Naomi Campbell, Marpessa Hennik, Gail Elliot, Yasmeen Ghauri, Nadege Du Bospertus.

Links: 

Madden, Kathleen. Vogue's View: Romantic's Evening/Down—in Designers' Hands.. Vogue, May 01, 1979. 214, https://search-proquest-com.proxy.lib.iastate.edu/docview/879275443?accountid=10906 (accessed February 2, 2018).

http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/8951/a-brief-history-of-the-puffer-jacket

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/fashion/07KAMALI.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/drake-hotline-bling-moncler-jacket

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A classic candid at the Fendi Spring/Summer 1992 RTW fashion show. We'll give you special shout out on the next Fashion in Focus episode if you can name all the supermodels in this photo. May the best #fashionnerd win!

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