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Fashion design

 Subject

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 721 Collections and/or Records:

Transparencies, Cruise-Spring 1982, Cruise-Spring 1982

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.1.77
Scope and Contents

This folder contains five transparencies depicting a model woman wearing a Maxwell dress.

Dates: Cruise-Spring 1982
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Photographical material, 1930's - Spring 1985 / Prints, 1940 - Spring 1985

Tribune Company Syndicate 1982- Bob Reed, 1982

 folder
Identifier: SC.214.7.118
Scope and Contents

This folder contains correspondence, black and white portraits of unidentified individuals, fashion and jewelry designs, press releases.

Dates: 1982
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Eleanor Lambert collection, 1942-2003 / Photographs and documents, 1993-1998

TV and radio, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.5.3.1
Scope and Contents

This folder contains correspondence related to radio, broadcasting, and TV programs where Vera Maxwell participated. Also, included is a handout related to journalist Martha Deane, a transcript of an interview that is related to Radio TV Reports, Inc. and in which Vera Maxwell has participated, and newspaper clippings about interviews the designer engaged in as well.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Publicity, 1936 - 1980 / Lecture materials, Undated

V. M. negatives, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.2.1
Scope and Contents

This folder contains color and black & white negatives depicting Vera Maxwell in a variety of interior and exterior spaces. The designer appears by herself in most of the negatives, but also alongside other people. Also, included is a color transparency of Vera Maxwell sitting outside of a house.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Photographical material, 1930's - Spring 1985 / Negatives, 1939 - Fall 1984

V. M. prints and negatives, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.1.83
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white prints and negatives depicting Vera Maxwell in a variety of interior and exterior spaces. Vera Maxwell appears by herself or alongside other people or a model woman wearing a Maxwell design. Also, included is a food menu related to the Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo and it is printed on a piece of fabric.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Photographical material, 1930's - Spring 1985 / Prints, 1940 - Spring 1985

V. M. prints and negatives, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.2.1.84
Scope and Contents

This folder contains black & white prints and negatives depicting Vera Maxwell in interior spaces and also in two exterior spaces in Monte-Carlo. Also, included is a black & white print of the city of Monaco and a color print depicting a man sitting in an office space.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Photographical material, 1930's - Spring 1985 / Prints, 1940 - Spring 1985

Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985

 Collection
Identifier: SC.69
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of nine series divided into sketches series containing sketchbooks, a style book, and separated large sketches; photographic material series containing prints, negatives, slides, framed photos, and large photos; textiles series containing swatch books and fabric & thread samples; scrapbooks series containing mainly photographs and press clippings; publicity series containing releases, news clippings, lecture materials, and press albums; special events series...
Dates: 1929 - 1985
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Yarn color samples, Undated, Undated

 folder
Identifier: SC.69.3.2.14
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a yarn color sample book from Columbia Yarns.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Vera Maxwell collection, 1929-1985 / Textiles, 1930's - 1950's / Fabric & thread samples, 1930's - 1950's

Young-Joo Kwon interview with Elizabeth Way, April 16, 2021

 Collection
Identifier: SC.476
Scope and Contents This oral history was conducted by Elizabeth Way on April 16, 2021, interviewing Young-Joo Kwon on the subject of her career as a fashion designer. Kwon details her education in Korea and Washington, DC, studying music and how a job during grad school working for a fashion designer inspired her to change career paths. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology beginning in 1968 and subsequently worked in the New York garment district for manufacturers and designers including Scott...
Dates: 2021 April 16
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

Yves Saint Laurent sketch & photograph collection, 1971

 Collection
Identifier: SC.78
Scope and Contents

This small collection contains fashion croquis, photocopied and colored, with fabric swatches, and photographs of models shown wearing the enclosed designs. All sketches are on Yves Saint Laurent stationary, and there are three typewritten clothing descriptions in French.

Dates: 1971 Summer
Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive

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