The New School Archives And Special Collections

Scope and Contents In addition to identified work there are unidentified fashion illustrations. These could be by Roy Little, Robert Galster or Gilbert Ireland, all of whom have fashion illustration work in the collection, but there is no signature on these drawings and no distinguishable way of attributing them. Additionally, slides of photographs from a fashion shoot contain no identifying or contextual information. They are estimated, based on the use of Kodachrome slide film, to be from the 1960s or...

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Black and white image depicting Norman Norell, James Galanos, Pauline Trigère and unidentified fourth designer seated behind models dressed in their apparrel. This image likely accompanied a magazine article.

Scope and Contents Includes hundreds of design sketches ranging from detailed pattern instructions to rough sketches attributed to the names of French designers and American retailers, including Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean Paquin, Cristobal Balenciaga, Hattie Carnegie, Bonwit Teller, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman. The inconsistency of these notes make it difficult to determine how many of these sketches were based on original designs created by Haon and her team. While Haon is known to have designed for...

-- Until 2001, the Fashion Design Department partnered established designers with students to create collections based upon the designers' styles. Many of the designer critics were themselves Parsons alumni. Images of designer critics are arranged alphabetically and include: Geoffrey Beene, Albert Capraro, Oscar de la Renta, Louis Dell'Olio, Georgio di Sant'Angelo, Perry Ellis, Ellie Fishman, James Galanos, Rudi Gernreich, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Izabel Lam, Ralph Lauren, Claire McCardell,...

-- The proper name of the annual display of Fashion Design Department student work has changed several times since its inception. For consistency, the yearly event is designated "Annual Fashion Show" here, but it was also referred to as the "Annual Fashion Critics Awards Show" and the "Fashion Critics Awards Benefit." The Golden Thimble Award is the name of an annual honor given to student designers by visiting critics from the fashion design industry. Critics over the years have...

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Inscribed on original folder: "Designers' predictions not accepted by the public again and again."

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Consists of a 1946 copy of Where, a hotel greeter’s guide that provides tourists with information about New York City, and a 1960 issue of Fashion Digest, a publication for young designers associated with the Traphagen School of Design.

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Includes student designers with judges Hargis, Mooring, Orrick, Stefan and Walker; a "Fantasy Fashion" assignment; and a panel discussion.

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Administrative material pertaining to the Fashion Design Department. Includes memos and correspondence from the office of Ann Keagy, chairman of the Fashion Design Department and President Francis A. Ruzicka. Also includes letters of invitation to guest critics and lecturers. Of note is a survey from 1963 detailing the percentage of designers then working in the fashion industry who attended Parsons.

Scope and Contents This series consists of 286 color and black and white prints depicting Johnson, arranged in roughly chronological order. The archivist used surrounding materials to estimate undated materials. Numerous photographs feature Johnson posing in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Some of the outfits modeled in her home are also found being worn at parties from articles in the Clippings series. A number of prints include photography studio stamps or handwritten captions indicating the year that the...