Jacki Apple student fashion illustrations
Summary
Jacki Apple is a designer, artist, professor, and alumna of Parsons School of Design. She studied fashion illustration and graphic design at Parsons from 1960-1963 and went on to work for many years as a fashion designer in New York City. This collection consists of ten fashion illustrations Apple made at Parsons, likely in a fashion illustration course she took her first year at Parsons with Irene S. Frangides.
Dates
- 1961
Creator
- Apple, Jacki (Person)
Extent
10 illustration(s)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of ten 18 x 24 inch fashion illustrations Apple made in 1961, while a student at Parsons School of Design. Five illustrations are mixed media (watercolor, oil pastel, and gouache) on paper. The other five are in charcoal. Apple was enrolled in Parsons’ Fashion Illustration program before transferring to the Graphic Design program in her second year. These drawings are most likely from a fashion illustration course she took her first year at Parsons with Irene S. Frangides.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from The New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical Note
Jacki Apple is a designer, artist, professor, and alumna of Parsons School of Design. She graduated from the Graphic Design program at Parsons in 1963 and went on to work for many years as a fashion designer in New York City. In the 1970s, she focused more on her art practice and co-founded the experimental arts organization Franklin Furnace, where she served as the first curator. In the 1980s, she relocated to California where she continues to teach at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The material in this collection was donated to The New School Archives and Special Collections by Jacki Apple in 2019.
- Fashion illustration. (Subject) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Fashion illustrations (layout features) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Student projects (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Jacki Apple student fashion illustrations
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- November 5, 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin