Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim Both the skirt and the

Both the skirt and the jacket have numbered couture labels

The silhouette is very minimum in design

lean A-line so that the fantastic design can be shown off to its full advantage

Huge "sleeves" are cut into the sides and go right to the floor

It nips in the waist to sit under the amazing matching skirt

Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim Both the skirt and theAs the legend goes, the sleeping bag coat was invented by Norma Kamali after a camping trip. From an interview with the NYTimes: "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 for the bush. As I was running,