Calahan, April
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Interview of Lawrence Abrams about his mother Miriam Abrams, 2018 January 9, 2018 January 9
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.13
Scope and Contents
Lawrence Abrams met with April Calahan of FIT Special Collections on January 9, 2018 to discuss his mother Miriam Abrams' career in fashion. Ms. Abrams grew up in the industry; her family owned and operated a girls coat manufacturing business, but lost it during the depression. To bring in extra money to help her family, Abrams found a position sketching designs for Billy Gordon, an American couturier. After leaving Billy Gordon, Abrams worked for other influential American designers, such...
Dates:
2018 January 9
Jamel Shabazz interview, 2014 January 6, 2014 January 6
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.1
Scope and Contents
April Calahan, Curator of Manuscripts at the Special Collections and FIT Archive unit of the Fashion Institute of Technology library, interviews street style fashion photographer Jamel Shabazz. Mr. Shabazz talks of his life growing up in New York City as a child of divorce. He recalls how he started learning photography in Germany while serving in the armed forces. He began documenting his world in 1980 when he began taking photographs of young people who reminded him of his own life growing...
Dates:
2014 January 6
Lawrence Abrams interview about Norman Norell, 2018 May 29, 2018 May 29
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.16
Scope and Contents
About five months after first sitting down with April Calahan for an Oral History, Lawrence Abrams once again met with Calahan to discuss the fashion designer Norman Norell. Known for his precise garment construction, Norell first became entranced with womens fashion as a youth patronizing burlesque shows. His first garment, however, was made for his mother in 1920. During the 1920s, Norell designed costumes for stage (Ziegfeld Follies, the Cotton Club) and screen. Norell began designing...
Dates:
2018 May 29
Robert Bryan interview, 2023 April 6, 2023 April 6
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.39
Scope and Contents
From the sub-sub-sub-series:
FIT Talks is an oral history program of the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York. It documents personal accounts and experiences of people relevant to the College and to the industries that support - and are supported by - the College’s curricula. The program incorporates the most suitable technologies for the capture and provision of content and, with the guidance of an advisory board, the strategic addition of new subjects to the collection. The collection is...
Dates:
2023 April 6