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Me: “April showers bring May flowers!” My frie

Me: “April showers bring May flowers!”
My friend: “It’s already mid-May.”
Me: “Oh. In that case, we better stop looking up, and start looking down for those flowers...”

Hope everyone is getting out there for a little springtime rain walking & flower gazing!
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Rain Mantles, 1860s
FIDM Museum Purchases
2019.5.54AB
2016.5.10

As featured in our Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 catalogue...available for purchase through our website, or wherever you buy your fashion books!
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Instead of candles on a birthday cake, let’s hav

Instead of candles on a birthday cake, let’s have a candelabra à la Dalí!

Salvador Dalí was born #otd in 1904, and the world would never be the same. A Surealist to his core, there was little distinction between his artworks and his lifestyle. As an artist, Dalí was occasionally open to working in the commercial world; in the 1930s, he designed textiles for couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli’s equally surreal fashions, and in the 1940s, while living in New York, he supplied striking patterns for dress fabrics to Wesley Simpson, Inc., and for furnishings to Schiffer Prints. Starting in the late 1940s and into the early 1950s, Dalí also dabbled in cravat designs which brought artistic accents to men’s wardrobes. This printed rayon tie features a motif titled ‘Candelabra,’ which is an ornately patterned scroll sprouting feathers and uplifting a flaming candle.

Scroll to the end to read a little newspaper ad from 1950 that sums up Dalí’s “completely crazy” artworks on neckties!
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Necktie designed by Salvador Dali; made by Towncraft Deluxe, c. 1950
Gift of Barry Friedman
2014.1333.218
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Pretty, peachy pleats and lavish embroidery make t

Pretty, peachy pleats and lavish embroidery make this Mary McFadden evening gown a sumptuous sight. McFadden is well-known for her choices in textiles which juxtapose textures, and for her columnar silhouettes which maximize her famous “Marii” pleating. This hallmark technique imitates Mariano Fortuny’s early-20th-century pleated silk fabrics, which he based upon ancient Greek and Egyptian pleating. The biggest difference between Fortuny’s and McFadden’s pleats? “Marii” is a synthetic polyester fabric which permanently accepts pleats through a heat-and-pressure process. Her embrace of modern technology had another advantage: McFadden’s garments were ideal for the jet-setting clientele she catered to because they are easy to pack without wrinkling!

McFadden was frequently inspired by the arts and artifacts of world cultures. This gown features a sequin-and-bead encrusted “vest” in pastel tones to complement the puffed gigot sleeves and ankle-length skirt; the embroidered tulip and grape motifs recall decorative motifs found in Ottoman Turkish arts.
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Evening Gown by Mary McFadden, 1980-1990
Gift of Mrs. Dennis Stanfill
2016.658.1
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Long ago, in a GALLERY far, far away... #MayThe4t

Long ago, in a GALLERY far, far away...

#MayThe4thBeWithYou! Flashing back to our special exhibition *Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars* (2005). We partnered with Lucasfilm to premiere the first exhibition ever created to celebrate the art of costume design from all six Star Wars films. This exhibition followed the very successful release of *Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith* and highlighted Trisha Biggar’s costumes from the film.
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Fashion begins with fabric! While that statement s

Fashion begins with fabric! While that statement seems basic, it's all too true that the stuff of fashion often takes a back seat to the style, cut, and designer. On this #NationalTextilesDay, feast your eyes on just a few details of historic dress and modern modes in our amazing FIDM Museum Study Collection.

So much of what we love about working with @FIDM students and educators springs from the access we provide to the next generation of fashion designers & historians. While we protect our Permanent Collection objects from excessive handling, we actively encourage touching with #StudyCollection pieces. Students should have the benefit of feeling the hand of a drapey antique fabric, or the suppleness of an 18th-century brocaded silk. They should also be exposed to global materials and techniques, some of which have changed little over centuries and have specific cultural meanings—and debate the merits of 20th-century "techno textiles" and their place in sustainability.

See all the fascinating things textiles allow us to talk about?
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Gilded glamour dress code, you say? No problem—w

Gilded glamour dress code, you say? No problem—we’re covered! We’ll even go one step further and wear American-made fashion for the occasion...
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Evening Gown by Hofer (Rochester, New York), c. 1905
Gift of Renee Sanders
2008.932.19AB
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Superheroes? Yeah, we got some of those! It’s #

Superheroes? Yeah, we got some of those!

It’s #NationalSuperheroDay, and over the past 30 years of exhibiting film costumes, we’ve run the gamut of all your favorite Marvel and DC Comics legends. Come to think of it, we have some new super-duper superheroes in our galleries right now!

💥Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), costumes by Michael Wilkinson

💥Thor: Ragnarok (2017), costumes by Mayes C. Rubeo

💥Wonder Woman (2017), costumes by Lindy Hemming

💥Avengers: Infinity War (2018), costumes by Judianna Makovsky

💥Aquaman (2018), costumes by Kym Barrett

💥Avengers: Endgame (2019), costumes by Judianna Makovsky

💥Captain Marvel (2019), costumes by Sanja Milkovic Hays

💥Black Widow (2021), costumes by Jany Temime

💥Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), costumes by Kym Barrett

💥Eternals (2021), costume design by Sammy Sheldon

💥The Suicide Squad (2021), costume design by Judianna Makovsky

You can see these last four in our current Art of Costume Design in Film exhibition—open until June 4, 2022!
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