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Haute couture

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Fashion plates and images from the sixteenth to twentieth century

 Collection
Identifier: SC.111
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of primary source material from various fashion-related sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The majority of the sources are fashion plates and tear sheets, but there are also sketches, photographs, and advertisements. Most of the images reflect women's and men's fashions, with some children's fashions, as indicated.

Dates: 1590-1960

Fashion sketches and illustrations, 1920-1939, 1920-1939

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.2.1
Scope and Contents This folder contains 34 fashion sketches and illustrations: 1) 3 Lelong women's designs; 2) 4 Chanel women's designs; 3) 3 Patou women's designs; 4) 1 Doucet womens's design; 5) 4 Renée women's designs; 6) 1 Lanvin women's design; 7) 1 Bernard women's design; 8) 4 Jenny women's designs; 9) 2 Redfern women's design; 10) 1 Chéruit women's design; 11) 1 Poiret women's design; 12) 1 Rolande women's design, c. 1920-1922; 13) 6 unattributed women's designs; 14) 2 men's fashion illustrations for...
Dates: 1920-1939

Fashion sketches and illustrations, 1940-1959, 1940-1959

 folder
Identifier: SC.111.2.2
Scope and Contents

This folder contains 100+ women's fashion sketches with attributions to clients, designers, and department stores; 1 children's sketch.

Dates: 1940-1959

July 19-20, 1991, 1991

 folder
Identifier: SC.214.1.1.291
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a column on Paris couture.

Dates: 1991

Symposium records, 2018

 folder
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.10.1.2.32
Scope and Contents

Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2018 Symposium "Behind the Designer" on Saturday, May 12, 2018. The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Jennifer Pronesti "Basket, Bones and Biomorphism: Beneath the Surface of Ralph Rucci's Process" ; Bethany Gingrich "The Temple of the Muses: Max Meyer and the New York Museum" ; Darnell Lisby "Azzedine Alaïa and Naomi Campbell: Like Father and Daughter" .

Dates: 2018