1980s OMO Norma Kamali Black Sleeping Bag Coat with Hood designer-norman-norell A wonderfully modern feeling piece

A wonderfully modern feeling piece that is surprisingly fresh and fashion forward

The bodice is cut loose and easy with sleeves that come out form the waist and narrow to extensively beaded cuffs

You see Oscar's nod to the orient with the offset row of buttons down one side of the bodice

There are faint fade marks round the arms and collar but when worn they do not detract - please see photos

1980s OMO Norma Kamali Black Sleeping Bag Coat with Hood designer-norman-norell A wonderfully modern feeling pieceAs the legend goes, the sleeping bag coat was invented by Norma Kamali after a camping trip. Here is the story in her own words from an interview with the NY Times: After splitting with her husband, Mohammed (Eddie) Kamali, in the mid 1970s, she took to camping in the woods with a boyfriend. It was cold, she recalled, and I was always getting up at night to go to the bathroom. On one particularly nippy night, she threw on her sleeping bag and sprinted