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Women's clothing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Laura Johnson collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0021-01
Summary

Laura Johnson (died 2002) was a New York City socialite and wife of Saks Fifth Avenue executive F. Raymond Johnson. The collection is primarily comprised of photographic prints and press clippings documenting her extensive wardrobe of couture clothing and active social life between the 1950s and late 1990s.

Dates: 1958 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1989

Mary Ann Restivo fashion runway video recordings

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31207040295051]
Identifier: KA-0073-01
Summary

The collection consists of thirteen video recordings documenting Mary Ann Restivo, Inc. fashion shows spanning the 1980s into Fall 1990.

Dates: 1982 - 1990

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

Michaele Vollbracht fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0043-01
Abstract Fashion illustrator Michaele Vollbracht (1947-2018) graduated from Parsons in 1968, and returned periodically as a visiting critic. After working as a design assistant for Geoffrey Beene, Donald Brooks, and Norman Norell, Vollbracht turned to fashion illustration and portraiture. In 1985 Vollbracht published Nothing Sacred, an illustrated memoir, and in 2000 Parsons mounted an exhibition to celebrate the release of an updated version of the book....
Dates: circa 1972-1986

Norman Norell collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0035-01
Abstract

Norman Norell (1900-1972) was the first American fashion designer to compete successfully with French couture. In 1943, he received the first Coty American Fashion Critics Award, and was inducted into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1956. Norell served as a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design from 1943 to 1972. The collection includes biographical material, clippings, sketches, photographs, scrapbooks, and five examples of Norell's clothing.

Dates: 1941 - 1974

René Bouché fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0038-01
Summary

A celebrated portraitist and leader in fashion illustration, René Robert Bouché (1905-1963) was a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design in 1947. The collection, assembled by Jerry Silverman and Shannon Rodgers, consists of over 100 of Bouché's fashion illustrations, as well as a poster from a 1974 exhibition of his work at Parsons.

Dates: 1949 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Roy Little sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0029-01
Abstract

Roy Little graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1949 and went on to become a designer for renowned French couturier Jacques Fath. He returned to Parsons as an instructor in 1958 and remained in that position until 1979. The nine numbered sketchbooks held by the New School Archives represent Little's work for Fath.

Dates: 1951 - 1954

Saks Fifth Avenue fashion publicity records

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0018
Abstract

The collection is comprised of 75 binders of fashion photographs and press materials promoting Saks Fifth Avenue’s clothing lines between 1954 and 1974, including Sophie Gimbel Originals, ready to wear and custom collections from 1954 to 1967. The photographs, reproductions of fashion sketches, and press releases shed light on Saks' fashion and marketing strategy under Helen O'Hagan, who succeeded Grace de Mun as Saks publicity director.

Dates: 1954 - 1974

Stefan fashion design papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0137-01
Abstract

Collection mainly consists of publicity photographs, press clippings, fashion show programs, and other materials related to the fashion design career of Stephen Walton Biddle Mason, Jr., known professionally as Stefan, between the mid-1940s and early 1960s.

Dates: circa 1945 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1964

Suzy Ehrlich fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0064
Summary

Suzy Lorraine Ehrlich (1919-2006), was a New York-based fashion illustrator and product designer. The collection is comprised of 69 fashion illustrations executed in pen and ink, pastel, crayon, watercolor, and collage. It also includes two mailers advertising Milliken yarns. Some illustrations may have been executed for a class taught by Jack Potter at the School of Visual Arts.

Dates: circa 1950s - 1960s