
1970s · 1970s · British
Designer
Zandra Rhodes
Production
haute couture
Material
fur
Culture
British
Movement
Glam Rock
Influences
Art Deco geometric patterns · tribal textile traditions
A fashion design sketch by Zandra Rhodes showing a dramatic fur coat with bold geometric striping in black and white. The garment features an exaggerated silhouette with wide, wing-like sleeves that extend dramatically from the body. The fur appears to be cut and arranged in alternating diagonal stripes creating a striking zebra-like pattern. Long fringe elements cascade from the edges, adding movement and texture. The coat's construction suggests a loose, enveloping fit that would create a sculptural presence on the wearer. The design exemplifies Rhodes' signature approach to combining luxurious materials with bold graphic patterns, characteristic of early 1970s experimental fashion.
The Art Deco bird perched on this 1920s headpiece and the explosive geometric wings of this 1970s fur coat sketch both speak the same visual language—sharp, radiating lines that slice through space with mechanical precision. Where the headpiece channels Deco's obsession with stylized nature through its feathered creature trailing beaded chains, the coat design abstracts those same radiating patterns into pure geometry, transforming the wearer into a walking architectural statement.


The Art Deco bird perched on this 1920s headpiece and the explosive geometric wings of this 1970s fur coat sketch both speak the same visual language—sharp, radiating lines that slice through space with mechanical precision. Where the headpiece channels Deco's obsession with stylized nature through its feathered creature trailing beaded chains, the coat design abstracts those same radiating patterns into pure geometry, transforming the wearer into a walking architectural statement.


Follow this garment wherever the graph leads
That beaded cocktail dress and the striped fur coat sketch are both drunk on the same geometric high — the angular, radiating patterns that made Art Deco the visual cocaine of the 1920s. The dress channels it through precise beadwork that creates diamond and chevron motifs across the body, while the coat explodes it outward in bold black-and-white stripes that seem to burst from the shoulders like a modernist firework.
These pieces share the graphic punch of Art Deco geometry, but express it through completely different vocabularies of luxury. The 1970s fur coat explodes with radiating stripes that turn the body into kinetic sculpture—those bold black lines cutting through white fur like Tamara de Lempicka's sharpest angles.
That explosive black and white striped fur coat reads like Art Deco's geometric fever dream made three-dimensional—all radiating lines and sharp angles that seem to burst from the body like a starburst. The golden wedding dress beneath it whispers the same geometric language, but in silk's softer dialect: look at those precisely engineered Art Deco motifs embroidered across the bodice and that methodical panel construction down the skirt.
These pieces share the graphic punch of Art Deco geometry, but express it through completely different vocabularies of luxury. The 1970s fur coat explodes with radiating stripes that turn the body into kinetic sculpture—those bold black lines cutting through white fur like Tamara de Lempicka's sharpest angles.