The FIDM Museum is proud to collaborate once again with the Pasadena Museum of History lecture series in conjunction with their current exhibition, Royals of Pasadena: Rose Queen and Royal Court. We invite you to join Museum Coordinator Leigh Wishner for her presentation “From Fragile to Funky: Flowers in Fashionable Fabrics, 1500-2000” this Thursday, February 8, from 6 pm – 8 pm.

Her colorful lecture, illustrated with images from museums around the world, will span five hundred years of flowers that never fade in apparel and furnishing textiles. Whether woven or printed, embroidered or embellished with trompe l’oeil petals and three-dimensional bouquets, or pushed to their abstract limits in design, flowers continually captivate and provide endless sources of natural inspiration to fashion designers and interior decorators.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Pasadena Museum of History website!

Straw Hat
Karl Lagerfeld, Spring/Summer 1988
FIDM Museum Purchase
2007.5.5

Silk fabric swatch
Wiener Werkstatte, 1910-1912
Gift of Robert Fortunoff
99.274.98

Aerophane Gown, c. 1833
Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection
FIDM Museum Purchase: Funds generously donated by Linda & Steven Plochocki
2017.5.44