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1979

  • Work on this object began.

2000

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Shopping Bag, Chanel: No. 5

This is a Shopping bag. It was made for (as the client) Chanel. It is dated 1979 and we acquired it in 2000. Its medium is paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Unknown Donor.

  • Evening Dress And Underslip
  • blue silk chiffon with applied blue ombré silk fringe.
  • Lent by Kent State University Museum, The Helen O. Borowitz Collection, KSUM....
  • 70.2016.2

Cite this object as

Shopping Bag, Chanel: No. 5; Client: Chanel; paper; Gift of Unknown Donor; 2000-26-78

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