Norma Kamali, Norma Kamali, Inc. Sleeping Bag Coat Designed 1973 (this version 2017)

  • Not on view

For designer Norma Kamali, the relationship between utility and style crystallized on a camping trip in the 1970s, when she wrapped herself in her sleeping bag for a bathroom run. “As I was running,” she recalled, “I was thinking, ‘I need to put sleeves on this thing,’” and the sleeping bag coat was born. Photographed throughout the 1980s for editorials featuring models in cocktail dresses and stilettos, the coat came across more like an avant-garde accessory rather than a re-imagining of a practical piece of outdoor equipment.

Additional text from Fashion as Design online course, Coursera, 2017
Medium
Nylon with fiber-filler
Dimensions
57 × 28" (144.8 × 71.1 cm)
Credit
Gift of the designer
Object number
84.2018
Copyright
© 2021 Norma Kamali
Department
Architecture and Design
Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

All requests to license audio or video footage produced by MoMA should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills or motion picture footage from films in MoMA’s Film Collection cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For licensing motion picture film footage it is advised to apply directly to the copyright holders. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the Film Study Center. More information is also available about the film collection and the Circulating Film and Video Library.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].

Feedback

This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please send feedback to [email protected].