Footwear

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This folder contains a column on shoe designers Joan and David Helpern and black and white portraits of the Helperns and color photos of the Helperns' shoes and accessories and black and white photocopies of these photos.

Scope and Contents Donated in March 2009, the Arsho Baghsarian shoe design collection comprises approximately 26 cubic feet (14 cubic feet for the sketches and 12 cubic feet for the sample shoes and embellishments). The collection contains 561 shoe prototypes (210 total pairs and 141 total single shoes), 9 original boxes, 4 accessories (2 pairs of Shin-Shams) and 4752 design sketches, some handbags but mostly shoes shown in profile. Many, especially during the later part of her career are sketch copies since...

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This folder contains 2 copies of a biography of Italian shoe designer Bruno Magli and a press release for the Magli America Fall 1967 Collection.

Scope and Contents Ellen Goldstein, the Chair of the Accessories Design and Millinery Department, started with FIT’s Fashion Design Department as a part-time instructor. In 1981, the school received a federal grant for industries affected by imports and was able to start an accessories department. With additional support from the industry, the department has taken off. Goldstein explains her beginnings as a tapestry weaver and how she got into handbag design. She then describes the demographics of her...

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This folder contains biographies of shoe designers Herbert and Beth Levine, 2 black and white 8x10 portraits of Beth, 2 copies of a black and white 8x10 portrait of Herbert, a black and white 8x10 photograph of a lace-up sandal design from 1970, and a clipping from the September 7, 1967 New York Times.

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This folder contains 15 black and white 8x10 photographs of Magli shoes from Resort 1967 and Spring 1968, as well as a press release for the Magli Fall 1967 Shoe Collection and a fact sheet about the Bruno Magli Reception.

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This folder contains a column on shoes and black and white photos of shoes by Joan Halpern of Joan and David, Kenneth Cole, Yves Saint Laurent, and Roger Vivier.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of sketches, shoe patterns, embellishments, photographs, promotional materials, scrapbooks, and metal stamps from women's footwear company Seymour Troy Originals. The majority of the collection is undated, although it is estimated that most of it is from the 1930s and 1940s. At least one piece of promotional material is from yrto, and there is a scrapbook cover stamped with yrto. Previous documentation of the collection noted that some sketches were by other...

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Third of three in The Shoe Series: red stiletto-heeled shoe; Color: marker and pastel; Signed; Client FIT demonstration