Costume and Fashion Design as seen through the Brooklyn Museum Library Collection

For more information and digital images documenting this innovative exhibition see http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/digital-collections/ pna1923/ Stewart Culin worked closely with M.D.C. Crawford (1882-1949), research editor of Women's Wear and consultant to the American Museum of Natural...

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Published in:Performing arts resources 2010-01, Vol.27, p.94
Main Author: Lawrence, Deirdre E
Format: Article
Language:English
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Archives & records
Art galleries & museums
Librarians
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Summary:For more information and digital images documenting this innovative exhibition see http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/digital-collections/ pna1923/ Stewart Culin worked closely with M.D.C. Crawford (1882-1949), research editor of Women's Wear and consultant to the American Museum of Natural History to bring together representatives from the fashion industry, artists, designers and museums into a closer relationship. Crawford alluded to this new found interest in American design: "Since the War there has been a consistent effort on the part of the authorities of the Brooklyn Museum to offer the facilities of their reserve collections to the textile and costume designers of this city and indeed of the country at large. The sketches were frequently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum starting with the exhibition French Fashion Sketches from the Henri Bendel Collection held in 1944 and at other museums such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design and several other art schools throughout the United States. Best dressed: fashion from the birth of couture to today by Dilys Blum (Philadelphia, Pa.: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997) Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism by Kohle Yohannan and Nancy Nolf (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998) Costume Design by Deborah N. Landis (Burlington, Ma.: Focal Press, 2003) Couture, the great designers by Caroline Rennolds Milbank (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang: Distributed by Workman Pub., c1985) Dressed: a century of Hollywood costume design by Deborah N. Landis (New York: Collins Design, 2007) Fashion through Fashion Plates 1771-1970 by Doris Langley Moore (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1971) Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film by Edward Maeder (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987) New York Fashion: the Evolution of American Style by Caroline Millbank (New York: Abrams, 1989) Elizabeth Hawes: Maverick of American clothing design by Jennie W. Choi (Self-Published, 1998) Modern American fashion design:
ISSN:0360-3814