SPARC is pleased to bring you a guest post by scholar and FIT Fashion and Textiles Studies Master’s program student, Andy Salzer. Andy holds a BFA in Fashion Design with an Art History minor from FIT. During their studies, they spent one year at Polimoda […]
Tag: Fashion History
The Redfern Scrapbook: A Process-Based Provenance Report
SPARC is pleased to bring you a guest post by Addie Joseph who was a Special Collections volunteer over the Summer of 2025. Addie spent the summer of 2025 in SPARC assisting with a major reorganization of our rare book library, and took on this […]
Paris to New York – Fashion Piracy from the Early Twentieth Century
SPARC is excited to bring you a guest post from fashion scholar Cora Harrington. Cora has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Agnes Scott College. In her former career, she was an intimate apparel expert and author of In Intimate Detail: How […]
The Myth of Poiret as Debunked by 1906
As a fashion historian, working in a Special Collections unit which focuses almost entirely on the history of design, is both a fantastic job and a wonderful education in its own right. The objects which encompass my day-to-day routine continually reveal the inconsistencies, holes or […]
Oral History Project of the Creative Industries
Beginning in the late 1970s, FIT library director John Touhey initiated the collection of oral histories as told by prominent members of the American fashion industry. Over the course of several decades, fashion designers, department store executives, Hollywood costume designers, models and style icons […]