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Saks Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Esta Nesbitt fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0086-01
Summary Esta Nesbitt (1918-1975), an instructor at Parsons School of Design from 1964 to 1974, created fashion illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and New York Times Magazine. Later in her career, Nesbitt used innovative printing methods as a children's book illustrator, and experimented with Xerography. The collection primarily consists of 271 fashion illustrations, pre-publication...
Dates: 1944 - 1964

Fred Greenhill fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0022-01
Summary

Fred Greenhill (1925-2007) graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1950. He went on to work as a fashion illustrator for Neiman Marcus in the 1950s, and was the primary artist for Saks Fifth Avenue in the 1960s and early 70s. Greenhill is most recognized for his work at Lord & Taylor from 1974 into the 1980s. The collection holds approximately 700 illustrations that Greenhill created from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Dates: circa 1960s-1980s

Menswear and sportswear fashion catalog collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0134-01
Overview

A small collection of menswear, sportswear and department store catalogs spanning the late 1960s into the mid-1970s.

Dates: 1967 - 1976