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André and Creators Studios fashion drawings
Collection
Identifier: KA-0011-01
Summary
André and Creators Studios were Seventh Avenue fashion businesses that marketed their designs to clothing manufacturers by subscription. In the mid-1970s Pearl Alexander Lipman, André's co-owner and designer since the 1930s, retired, and the company's design drawings were sold to Creators Studios. The collection consists of reproductions of designs -- some vibrantly hand-colored -- produced and distributed by the two companies between 1937 and 1972.
Dates:
1937 - 1972
Found in:
The New School Archives
Ethel Dean papers
Collection
Identifier: KA-0075-01
Summary
The collection includes class notes and a clip book documenting decorative styles compiled by Ethel Epstein (who later used the surnames Dean and Evans) when she was a student at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in the Interior Architecture and Decoration Department, around 1925. Also includes textile and wallpaper samples designed by Dean, probably dating from the 1950s, and a portfolio of her costume design drawings for the Broadway production of...
Dates:
probably 1925 - circa 1950s
Found in:
The New School Archives
Herbert Sondheim, Inc. fashion business scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: KA-0039-01
Abstract
Herbert Sondheim (1895-1966), who lectured at Parsons School of Design in 1946, ran a dressmaking business that produced affordable versions of Parisian high-end fashion. The collection consists of nineteen Herbert Sondheim, Inc. scrapbooks, the bulk of which contain fashion drawings and sketches. Included in some books are sketches depicting the work of Vionnet, Chanel, Molyneux, and other couture houses. The sketches were used by Sondheim designers as templates and inspiration in the early...
Dates:
1923 - 1947
Found in:
The New School Archives
John Weitz papers
Collection
Identifier: KA-0047
Abstract
A leading figure in the development of American ready-to-wear clothing, John Weitz (1923-2002) established one of the first American signature menswear lines. Through various licensing arrangements combined with self-referential advertising campaigns, he established an international consumer base. In addition to fashion design, Weitz pursued an array of other interests, becoming a successful race car driver, yachtsman, bestselling author and photographer. Weitz was a visiting lecturer at...
Dates:
1945 - 1998
Found in:
The New School Archives
Lucie Porges fashion design papers
Collection
Identifier: KA-0139-01
Summary
The Lucie Porges fashion design papers include biographical materials, fashion sketches, fashion illustrations and fashion photographs, and teaching records. It is of a primarily professional nature, with little documentation of Porges's personal life. The primary activities documented are Porges's fashion design work for Pauline Trigère and her teaching activities at Parsons School of Design.
Dates:
1950 - 2011
Found in:
The New School Archives
Mildred Orrick fashion and costume sketches
Collection
Identifier: KA-0067
Abstract
Fashion designer Mildred Orrick (1906-1994) graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School for Design) in 1928 and went on to a career as a fashion and costume designer and illustrator, and designed part of the Futurama exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Orrick was a visiting critic at Parsons from 1947 to 1962. The collection consists of Orrick's fashion and theater costume sketches, 1920s-1950s. Additional Orrick sketches may be found in the...
Dates:
circa 1928-1962
Found in:
The New School Archives
Parsons School of Design Fashion Design Department records
Record Group
Identifier: PC-02-02-01
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains the records of the Fashion Design Department of Parsons The New School for Design. Records include course syllabi and descriptions, look books, clippings scrapbooks, student work, and annual fashion benefit planning records, photographs, and programs. A name index for searching Parsons alumni and faculty in the clippings scrapbooks may be found here.
Dates:
1941 - 2008
Found in:
The New School Archives
Patrick Michael Hughes students' work and teaching records
Collection
Identifier: PC-02-02-03
Summary
Student work and a syllabus from two fashion design courses Patrick Michael Hughes taught at Parsons School of Design between 2007 and 2010. The courses, History, Culture, Society and Themes in Men's Fashion are repesented through notebooks, drawings, and papers. Additionally, the collection includes an independent study project based on the men's suit and a project created in a class taught by Hughes's colleague, Lisa SantaAndrea.
Dates:
circa 2007 - 2010
Found in:
The New School Archives
Robert Carreon student work
Collection
Identifier: KA-0133-01
Scope and Contents
Robert Carreon produced the drawings in this collection as part of his coursework at Parsons School of Design from 1966 until 1968, with the exception of eight drawings from his admissions portfolio and a drawing of a dress and cape that Carreon created for his sister's winter wedding while he was enrolled at Parsons. According to Carreon, student assignments followed a structured workflow: fashion design students maintained a sketchbook (not included in the collection), which they...
Dates:
1966 - 1969
Found in:
The New School Archives
Robert Mackintosh costume and fashion design work
Collection
Identifier: KA-0105-01
Summary
Robert Mackintosh (1925-1998) was a costume and fashion designer whose design career spanned forty years and twenty Broadway productions. He made his Broadway debut designing costumes for the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here and went on to design costumes for both on and off-Broadway productions. In the 1960s, Mackintosh branched out into womenswear design with Musette, a juniors label, which was sold at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He went on to...
Dates:
1945 - 1998
Found in:
The New School Archives
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