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Fancy Dresses Described; or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls is a 19th century fancy dress manual, filled with creative, sometimes surprising, fancy dress costumes. Basket of daffodils, a pack of cards, the Suez Canal, a comet, and the eighteenth-century are just... Read Article ››
Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga, Fall 2008
Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga Fall 2008 Gift of Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale 2012.116.4AB Cristobal Balenciaga was such a giant in the world of haute couture, it's no surprise that his namesake house went into decline after his retirement in 1968. For... Read Article ››
Behind the Scenes at Modern Love
Modern Love: Fashion Visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA opens this weekend at the Bendigo Art Gallery! For the past three weeks, Curator Kevin Jones, Associate Curator Christina Johnson, and Assistant Registrar Dani Killam have been working with Bendigo Art... Read Article ››
Miniature corset, 1890s
Miniature corset France, 1890s Museum Purchase 2010.5.9 The corset was literally and figuratively the most defining female fashion of the Victorian era. The body underneath and the clothing above relied on the anatomy-shaping device to compress excess flesh... Read Article ››
Flying First Class: Custom Crating for Alexander McQueen’s Peacock Dress
Today's post is courtesy of Ilana Winter, our Temp. Assistant Registrar. In this post, Ilana describes the process of crating our beloved Alexander McQueen Peacock dress for travel to the Modern Love exhibit in Bendigo, Australia. Read on for a wonderful... Read Article ››
Friday Wrap
An occasional round-up of links, events, exhibitions, and other information of interest. This week, we share a new exhibit that caught our attention, and free downloads from Costume, the journal of The Costume Society of Great Britain. Costume‘s current... Read Article ››
Event Recap: FABULOUS! Soirée at Fashion Island
On Saturday, October 5, friends of the FIDM Museum gathered at Fashion Island for a gala evening to benefit the FIDM Museum & Galleries and The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection Acquisition Campaign. The grand finale of Style Week OC, this event... Read Article ››
Summer intern report
We love our interns and volunteers! We've worked with many wonderful interns and volunteers, and the intern featured in today's post is no exception. Joanna Abijaoude, who wrote a great post on a Victorian skirt lifter, recently completed a summer... Read Article ››
Modern Love: Fashion Visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA at Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia
Headed down under? Don’t miss Modern Love: Fashion Visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA, an exhibition of visionary late-20th & 21st century fashion from the FIDM Museum collection. Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, will be the exclusive venue... Read Article ››