Miles Davis Threadz

The continuation of this blog, The Miles Davis Threadz has been seriously neglected. In honor of making history today, this blog will continue to live on. Today, three more pieces were placed on loan to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles for an exhibit to preview on May 23, 2010.

Pictured here is Miles and photographer Freddie Warren, Jazz Photographer in London, 1970. Miles is wearing the leather coat which has the label A.C. BANG sewn on the inside back collar. The rest of the label reads:


Kongelig Hofleverandor
Siden 1817
Kobenhavn

The buckles on the sleeve as well as those wide lapels of the 70's match the leather coat I own. I don't have the name of the photographer that took this photo. If anyone knows who took this photo, please let me know so I can give them credit. Thanks to Tom M for finding this photo.

Also added to the Grammy Collection is this sheep skin reversible jacket. More on this and other photos of Miles wearing this jacket later.

This third piece, and one of my favorite, is the purple velvet jacket with bell sleeves and a scalloped hem. It also contains both labels on the inside right breast from "Emsley of New York" and "Styled for Miles Davis". Check out the wild print for lining as you can see in a lot of his choices of fabric. It measures 26 inches from the back collar to bottom scallop. It has three snaps at the front closing. It is in excellent condition with slight wearing at the neckline. Can't you see Prince wearing this? More on their attempted collaboration later.

There's lots more that will be added over the coming days and weeks from research we have done over the last few years. Stay tuned.

To find out more about the original blog go to: http://milesdavisthreads.blogspot.com/

This blog is called Miles Davis Threadz where the former one was Miles Davis Threads. Blogspot changed their format awhile ago and it does not allow me to add new posts.