Brooklyn Museum of Art Libraries and Archives,. Fashion and costume sketch collection: designer files.
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Fashion and costume sketch collection: designer files.
The designer files include correspondence between designers and librarians Grace Banker and Mary Dorward regarding their project to collect fashion and costume sketches and compile biographical information directly from designers. The original questionnaires (primarily 1942) and typed biographies (compiled by Pratt Institute students in 1954), are included. The files may also contain advertising tearsheets and brochures, clippings, press releases, photographs of garments and designers, invitations, and notes. Of particular note are the more extensive file on Henri Bendel, documenting the 1944 Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition, "French Fashion Sketches, 1920-1940"; and the Vera Maxwell file, which includes a series of radio broadcast transcripts from the 1940s. Only the files of the following 39 designers contain questionnaires: Adrian, Charles Armour, Brownie, Louise Brune, Bruno, Bonnie Cashin, Jo Copeland, Vincent Coppola, Lilly Dache, Herman Delman, Stephen Erklin, Eta, Louise Gallagher, Edith Head, Philippe Hulitor, Merry Hull, Irene, Vera Jacobs, Omar Kiam, Kiviette, Morris Kraus, Josef S. Lanz, Helen Liebert, Mabs of Hollywood, Claire McCardell, Margot Kops McClintock, Monica, Renee Montague, Germaine Monteil, Mark Moring, Nina Price, Natalie Renke, Nettie Rosenstein, Jean Schlumberger, Adele Simpson, Patricia Spaulding, Jessie Franklin Turner, Joset Walker, Joseph Whitehead.
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