Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim Huge "sleeves" are cut into

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

Both the skirt and the jacket have numbered couture labels

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

A tie belt cinches in the waist and it has big front pockets that fold over and really add an interesting detail

Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim Huge "sleeves" are cut intoAs 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,