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The library collection began with a number of gifts by donors, curators, and staff. It has since grown though purchases reflecting The Costume Institute Collection's holdings and books acquired for preliminary exhibition research relating to art, film, gender studies, LGBTQIA+ history, literature, music, pop culture, and others. [1]
Costume design is the process of selecting clothing for a performer to wear. A costume may be designed from scratch or may be designed by combining existing garments. "Costume" may also refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a social class, or a period. It is intended to contribute to the fullness of the artistic, visual world ...
James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of ...
Overview of fashion from The New Student's Reference Work, 1914. Summary of women's fashion silhouet changes, 1794–1887. The following is a chronological list of articles covering the history of Western fashion—the story of the changing fashions in clothing in countries under influence of the Western world—from the 5th century to the present.
2000s: The rise of "sexy costumes" and going global By the early 2000s, adult costuming saw a surge in “sexy” costume popularity with the emergence of slinkier versions of everything from nuns ...
The book includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of sources. It was originally published in French in 1965 as Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours and was translated into English the next year, but was published after Boucher's death. In 1987 Deslandres updated a new edition with a section on modern fashion.
Deirdre Clemente, an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, explains to Yahoo Life that unlike the spandex and polyester blends of today’s costume, the original Playboy ...
Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS; Ribeiro, Aileen: Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England, Yale, 2005, ISBN 978-0-300-10999-3