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Fashion design

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 721 Collections and/or Records:

Mollie Parnis interview, 1982 June 2, 1982 June 02

 Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.1.89
Scope and Contents This interview opens with Mollie Parnis talking about her latest project, a prize for three young journalists that she began in memory of her son. She then segues into the origins of her company and her early biography. She commenced her career by designing blouses after being frustrated at the quality of the designs while working in a design showroom on Madison Avenue. The Parnis-Livingston company began in a studio Seventh Avenue about five-years after Mollie Parnis and Leon Livingston...
Dates: 1982 June 02

Monte Carlo show, 1966, 1966

 Sub-Series
Identifier: SC.69.6.2
Scope and Contents

This sub-series is comprised of 12 folders containing primarily prints, negatives, correspondence, handouts, and news clippings related to Vera Maxwell's Indian Collection and Monte Carlo show. Also, included is a contact sheet and a promotional poster related to the same collection.

Dates: 1966

Names, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.7.6
Scope and Contents

This folder contains material with names that apparently were used for reference. The material includes handouts of showings of fashion collections, a menu of fine wines, sheets of paper with names and descriptions of fashion outfits, lists of names of fabrics with prices, a list of state county names of the U.S., a list of different shades of color, a list of words in Spanish, and a list of random 102 words/ideas.

Dates: Undated

Nancy North photographs and sketches, 1973

 Collection
Identifier: SC.387
Scope and Contents This collections is comprised of seventeen (17) 18x16" black and white framed photographs by Bill Cunninham taken at the Grand Divertissement à Versailles in 1973. Persons featured in photographs include Marisa Berenson, Karen Bjornson, Alva Chinn, Dennis Christopher, Pat Cleveland, Bill Dugan, Heidi Lieberfarb, China Machado, Nancy North, Chris Royer, Ramona Saunders, and Andy Warhol. Also included in the collection are twenty-five (25) 17 x 11" original marker sketches by Halston and a...
Dates: 1973

Negatives, 1939 - 1942, 1939 - 1942

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.3
Scope and Contents This folder contains black & white negatives depicting women models wearing Maxwell designs. Also, included are black & white prints depicting a variety of scenarios. Vera Maxwell appears alone in her studio in some of the prints or alongside other people in other places. Another print depicts Princess Grace of Monaco and manager David Lebowitz visiting the cutting room at Vera Maxwell, Inc. Lastly, there are two prints depicting mannequins in retail spaces wearing Maxwell...
Dates: 1939 - 1942

Negatives, 1939 - Fall 1984, 1939 - Fall 1984

 Sub-Series
Identifier: SC.69.2.2
Scope and Contents

This sub-series is comprised of 34 folders containing primarily Vera Maxwell negatives. Also, included are transparencies, prints and photographic slides.

Dates: 1939 - Fall 1984

Negatives, 1940 - 1948, 1940 - 1948

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.4
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white negatives and color transparencies depicting women models wearing Maxwell designs. Also, included is a color transparency depicting mannequins in an exhibition display and a color photograph depicting a model woman in an interior space. Both, the mannequins and the model, are wearing Maxwell designs.

Dates: 1940 - 1948

Negatives, 1945 - 1949, 1945 - 1949

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.5
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white negatives and color transparencies depicting women models wearing Maxwell designs. Also, included is a black & white negative depicting an ad release for Bergdorf Goodman.

Dates: 1945 - 1949

Negatives, 1950 -1953, 1950 -1953

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.6
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white negatives depicting women models wearing Maxwell designs.

Dates: 1950 -1953

Negatives, 1955 - 1966, 1955 - 1966

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.7
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white negatives and color transparencies depicting women models wearing Maxwell designs.

Dates: 1955 - 1966