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Museum Monday 🐟
A lesser-known side of Gilbert Adrian: menswear.
Margaret’s provided specialized care for 11 historic Adrian garments now featured in ADRIAN: Designing Hollywood, Dressing America at ASU FIDM Museum.
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#MuseumMonday #FashionHistory #GilbertAdrian

Museum Monday 🐟
A lesser-known side of Gilbert Adrian: menswear.
Margaret’s provided specialized care for garments now featured in ADRIAN: Designing Hollywood, Dressing America at ASU FIDM Museum.
#MuseumMonday #FashionHistory #GilbertAdrian

machine and a picture of a pleat mold, shows how it was done historical. Tom's Sons have shown some of their pleat molds to journalists, which you can see here. #Fashionhistory

The Grand Dame of style herself, Iris Apfel was a legend. She cultivated a personal style so strong and unique that the Met Costume Institute staged an exhibition of her curated outfits and collected objects.
#fashionhistory #style #fashionsky #irisapfel

This feels like a quietly appropriate approach to autumn dressing, a loose early #1880s ‘at home’ kind of gown in reddy brown challis, a lightweight blend of wool & silk. The Watteau pleat at the back & panels at the front are embroidered with pale forget-me-nots #newcanaanmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Celebrating Billy Porter on his birthday.
The black velvet tuxedo gown Billy Porter wore to the 2019 Oscars has become one of the defining red-carpet looks of the century.
#BillyPorter #ChristianSiriano #OscarsFashion #RedCarpetFashion #FashionHistory #Menswear#FashionConservatory #BOTD

Picasso meets Vogue Paris, 1951.
Fashion, print, and art layered into one striking visual language.

#ArtAndFashion #FashionHistory

John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette #OnThisDay in 1996 in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island. The bride wore a Narciso Rodriguez slip dress made from pearl-while silk crêpe accessorized with a silk tulle veil, gloves, and Manolo Blahnik sandals. #fashionhistory

parachutes as fabric as they were made of silk or nylon, which were in short supply do to war rations. The bride, Nancy Wauchek, was given the parachute by the groom's brother, who was a Navy pilot. #Fashionhistory

ID: V.49.115
hats
Date: Circa 1941
Artist: Thalhimers; Retailer ||Yvonne, Marguerite; Maker
https://valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/mDetail.aspx?rID=V.49.115&db=objects&dir=VALCOLL #FashionHistory

The wearer of this dress sounds as glamorous as the garment itself, Mrs Opal Halt, a Canadian who liked to buy her clothes in London. This is a mid #1930s Vionnet gown of black velvet with streamers on either side of the shoulders which look like a mini superhero cape #V_and_A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

1806 Jane Austen Style Lavender Morning Dress and Lorgnette or Looking Glass, French. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #FashionHistory

American fashion designer James Galanos was born #OnThisDay in 1924. He designed this Galanos couture for Nan Duskin black polka dot net lace cocktail dress with rhinestone straps in A/W 1967. Lauren Hutton modelled it in the pages of Vogue. Sold by Timeless Vixen. #fashionhistory

What was fashionable for outer wear in Bridgerton and Jane Austen's times? Spencers, short jackets, or Regency jackets. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #FashionHistory #GeorgianHistory - www.suzilove.com?p=38399&utm_...

It reveals and it covers, the sequinned mesh dress worn with a silver trimmed matelasse coat with a self coloured geometric design. The ensemble reflects the era of the space age and its effects on #1960s fashion, created in Milan by Mila Schön #V_and_A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

J-Lo’s 2000 Grammy Versace dress was a total fashion earthquake. While it didn't invent red carpet surveillance, it did change the internet forever—sparking the creation of Google Images because everyone was searching for that iconic look. #FashionHistory #JLo

Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes was born #OnThisDay in 1940. She designed this ball gown consisting of a black quilted satin bodice, a gold pleated polyamide polyester and lamé skirt and 'panniers' over black printed silk tulle for her A/W 1981 Renaissance Collection. V&A collection. #fashionhistory