Textiles
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Lucile, Ltd. records, 1910-1925
Collection
Identifier: SC.1
Scope and Contents
Collection is comprised of model photographs, sketches, photographs of sketches, show programs, some newspaper and magazine clippings with articles about or by Lucile, order forms, advertisements, and fashion plates. Garment designs include theatrical costumes, wedding gowns, day and evening wear, tea gowns, lingerie and pajamas. Bulk of the collection consists of model photographs, fashion sketches, photographs of sketches and official phototransfers. In addition there are clippings of...
Dates:
1863-1935
Found in:
Special Collections and FIT Archive
Scrapbook, Fall 1915, 1915
Sub-Series
Identifier: SC.1.1.1
Scope and Contents
Disbound scrapbook, 145 photographs Autumn 1915 line, in 2 folders. Photographs are unannotated. At this time Lady Duff Gordon reached creative and financial pinnacle of her career. Success of New York branch helped to support the war-torn London and Paris branches. This line features a return to the full skirt and decorative pleating and decadent fabrics. Around this time Lucile gained status of a Permanent Resident in the United States. [See--US.NNFIT.SC.1.1.3-6 for annotation, duplicated...
Dates:
1915
Susan Rietman interview, 2019 February 20, 2019 February 20
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.23
Scope and Contents
Alex Joseph, Managing Editor of FIT's Hue Magazine interviews Susan Rietman, a professor from FIT's Textile Service Design and Fabric Styling program. Susan recalls her childhood and how her life led to fashion, particularly how a serigraphy course led her into the field textiles. She talks about her mother's designer clothing collection that she has kept, and about her move to New York right after college in 1961. Her first job was with Leslie Tillet at "D.D. and Leslie Tillett" where she...
Dates:
2019 February 20
Symposium records, 2014
folder
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.10.1.2.24
Scope and Contents
Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2014 Symposium "Modes of Modernity The Ephemeral & the Eternal in 20th Century Fashion." The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Jasmine Helm, "Abstract Becoming Modern: The Directoire Revival Style;" Diana Dalmas, "Period Films and the Decline of the Modern 1930-1953;" Danielle Morrin, "Clara Bow: The Rise and Fall of the Fashionable Flapper;" Tae In Ahn, "All that Glitters is...
Dates:
2014