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Original women's fashion sketches

Collection

Identifier: SC.324

Scope and Contents

This collection holds original fashion sketches of women's fashion, signed A.O. Sketches are mixed media, pencil, gouache, and ink on vellum. 1 sketch with fabric swatch attached.

Dates: circa 1920-1929; 1950-1959

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Packaging collection

Collection

Identifier: SC.339

Scope and Contents

This devised collection holds various packaging boxes, hat boxes, perfume bottles and shopping bags from designers such as Fiorucci, Les Bas, House of Field, Moschino, Chanel, Hermès, Absolut Vodka, Laduree and Henri Bendel. Additional accruals are expected.

Dates: undated

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Pageant-Party of the Year 1966 sketches

Collection

Identifier: SC.351

Scope and Contents This collection consists original mixed-media sketches, most of which bear notations by specific designers indicating that they were produced for the 1966 Party of the Year Pageant along with "inspired by" notes indicating a specific garment (with accession numbers) in the collection of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many sketches are accompanied by fabric swatches.Artwork in the collection is by a variety of designers and artists including...

Dates: 1966

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Papillon Ltd. papers

Collection

Identifier: SC.407

Scope and Contents

This collection contains newsprint press clippings, original sketches with attached swatches, and photographs that document the fashion design firm Papillon. Much of the material was likely previously removed from scrapbooks by former SPARC staff.

Dates: 1970-1979

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Paris collections fashion papers

Collection

Identifier: SC.314

Scope and Contents

This collection holds original fashion sketches and reproductions of sketches; press release photographs; special press reports on Paris fashion from Carmel Snow, Tobe, WWD; Marjorie Reich's report for Macy's; unattributed magazine tear sheets and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1948-1963

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Pat Sandler sketches

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC.63

Scope and Contents This folder contains 15 undated original color and black and white sketches of women's wear. There is little annotation on these aside from numbers, presumably related to the dress model. There are also 7 painted renderings on board of women's formal and holiday gowns, signed by Sandler and dated 1958-1962; on the reverse are handwritten notes including the seasons they were shown, and one from 1961 includes a note that Sandler won an award that year. Many of these drawings on board also...

Dates: circa 1958-1962

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Paula Carbone collection

Collection

Identifier: SC.344

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of five art portfolios containing advertisements featuring lingerie designs created by Paula Carbone for the companies Papillion, Vanity Fair, Yolande, Victoria's Secret, and Van Raalte. Includes one disbound scrapbook and press materials related to the companies.

Dates: 1950-2003

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Pauline Trigère collection, 1939-2008

Collection

Identifier: SC.424

Scope and Contents This collection contains a diverse assortment of business and personal items pertaining to French-born fashion designer Pauline Trigère dating to 1939 - 2008 and encompassing the period of her New York fashion career, retirement and after her death in 2002. It includes fashion and personal photographs, marketing materials, tear sheets, correspondence, scrapbooks, original illustrations, packaging, (including hang tags and labels), two hand-drafted paper patterns, and philanthropic records,...

Dates: 1939-2008

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive