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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Brooklyn Museum. Edward C. Blum Design Laboratory.

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Ballard, Lucinda, 1906-1993

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Lucinda Ballard (April 3, 1906 – August 19, 1993) was an American costume designer who worked primarily in Broadway theatre. Born Lucinda Davis Goldsborough in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ballard studied at the Art Students League in New York City. Her first professional credits was as the scenic and costume designer for a 1937 production of As You Like It. In 1945, she won the Donaldson Award for the costumes she designed for I Remember Mama. Two years later she was the first person to win the T...

Brooklyn Museum of Art. Libraries and Archives

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Mangone, Philip.

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Delman, Herman.

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Kiviette

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Hawes, Elizabeth, 1903-1971

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Fashion designer and author. From the description of Scrapbook Collection. (Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives). WorldCat record id: 78298252 ...

Lanz, Josef S.

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Kiam, Omar 1894-1954

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Armour, Charles A., 1934-

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Pauline.

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Saunders, Will.

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Renke, Natalie.

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Plunkett, Walter, 1902-1982

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Cashin, Bonnie

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Bonnie Cashin was born September 28, 1908 in Fresno, Calif. In her teens she worked as a fashion illustrator and dance costume designer for Los Angeles dance troupe, Fanchon and Marco. She briefly studied drawing at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles. In 1933 she moved to New York to design costumes for the Roxyette danceline at the Roxy Theater. In 1933, and again in 1935, Cashin studied drawing at the Art Students' League. From 1937 until 1942, she designed for the coat and suit manufa...

Reeves, Ruth, 1892-1966

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Designer and textile designer; New York, N.Y. Served as head of the poster division of the New York City Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. Studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., the San Francisco School of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. Taught at the School of Painting and Sculpture at Columbia Univ. and the Cooper Union Art School. Died Dec. 23, 1966, at age 74. From the description of Ru...

Gallagher, Louise P.

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Walker, Joset.

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Newman, Bernard, 1903-1966

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Moring, Mark

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Norell, Norman, 1900-1972

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Norman Norell, born Norman David Levinson, was often called the "Dean of American fashion". Know equally for his simple, extremely well-made, pared down day clothes and for his dramatic looks for evening, he had the rare ability to translate the characteristics of French couture into American ready-to-wear. Norell was the first designer to win a Coty American Fashion Critics Award (in 1943) and the first to be elected to the Coty Award Hall of Fame. Both Halston and Adolfo designed millinery to ...

McCardell, Claire, 1905-1958

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Claire McCardell was born 24 May, 1905 Frederick, MD. During her early adolescence she began making her own clothes. At 18 she enrolled in Hood College in Fredrick, MD. She left after to years to peruse fashion illustrations at New York School of Fine and Applied Art (Known today as Parsons School of Design) in NY. She lived at the Three Art Club, where she began buying old couture garments, take them apart, study their construction, alter and wear them herself. In 1927 she transfer...

Bruno, 1906-1974.

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Monteil, Germaine.

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Henri Bendel (Firm)

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Adrian, 1903-1959

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White, Miles, 1914-2000

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White (1914-2000) was an American costume designer. From the description of Miles White costume designs, 1943-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612765449 b. July 27, 1914 d. February 17, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122451864 ...

Czettel, Ladislas, 1894?-1949.

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Pandora Frocks.

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Rosenstein, Nettie.

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Kraus, Morris.

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Montague, Renée.

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Irene, 1901-1962

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Costume designer at MGM. From the description of Costume design for the Barkleys of Broadway, 1948. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 699513485 ...

Mabs of Hollywood.

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Hulitor, Philippe, 1905-

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Schlumberger, Jean

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Spaulding, Patricia J.

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Parnis, Mollie.

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Blotta, Anthony, 1888?-1971.

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Brigance, Tom, 1913-

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Arturi, Grace.

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Leser, Tina, 1911-1986.

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Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Miller, Anne, 1941-

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Chapman, Ceil, 1912-1979.

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Erklin, Stephen.

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Le Maire, Charles

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Charles Le Maire designed costumes, with Mark Mooring, for the 1925 Greenwich Village Follies, having designed the costumes for the revue's more famous rival, the Ziegfeld Follies, a year earlier. He began his design career for theater in the 1920's and later worked in film, becoming the director of wardrobe at 20th Century Fox Studios from 1942-1960. From the guide to the Charles Le Maire costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic], 1925 and 1926, (The New York Publi...

Liebes, Dorothy

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Weaver and textile designer; New York, N.Y., San Francisco, Ca. Liebes was married to Relman Morin. She also operated Dorothy Liebes Design, Inc., NYC. From the description of Dorothy Liebes papers, 1925-1973 (bulk 1922-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220239501 Dorothy Liebes is a weaver and textile designer in New York, N.Y. and San Francisco, Ca. Liebes was married to Relman Morin. She also operated Dorothy Liebes Des...

Hull, Merry.

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Derby, Jane.

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Turner, Jessie Franklin.

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Daché, Lily

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Jacobs, Vera, 1898-

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Price, Nina

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Barbara Joan Togs, Inc.

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Eta.

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Liebert, Helen.

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Carnegie, Hattie

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Hubert, René 1895-1976

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Copeland, Jo, 1899-1982.

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Copeland was a designer of up-scale, ready-to-wear clothing remembered for her "after five" ensembles for dinner or the theater. While studying at Parsons School of Design, she was spotted by Rose Amado of Patullo Modes and brought into the firm as a design trainee and eventually a full time designer. After a brief venture with Ann Sadowsky in 1930, she returned to Patullo Modes and by 1936 the firm changed its name to Patullo-Jo Copeland. Copeland was one of the earliest designers to have her n...

Stevenson, Edward Augustus, 1831-1895

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McClintock, Margot Kops.

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Brune, Louise.

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Coppola, Vincent

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Maxwell, Vera, 1903-1995.

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Brownie, 1903-

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Monica.

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Whitehead, Joseph, 1867-1938

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Women's fashion designer born in Portsmouth, Virginia. After graduating from the New York School of Design, he worked at Corbeau et Cie in the 1920's and from 1933 to 1942 co-owned Joseph Whitehead, Inc, a maker of high-priced afternoon, dinner, evening and wedding dresses. In the late 1940's he headed a division of Foxbrownie, Inc that specialized in upscale, ready-to-wear womenswear. He is remembered for his bridal gowns and "dinner-at-home" dresses. From the description of Joseph ...

Head, Edith

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Edith Head was a hollywood costume designer. From the description of Ten Commandments costume continuity book, 1954-4956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367827687 According to the donor, the sketches are executed by various studio artists, following the design ideas of Edith Head, and approved by Head. From the description of Design illustrations for Western films [graphic]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81150916 ...

Trigére, Pauline

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Simpson, Adele

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