Mildred Orrick's design for a blouse, jacket and skirt,
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The New School Libraries have digitized more than 1,500 fashion design sketches selected from the archival collections of Claire McCardell, Norman Norell, and Mildred Orrick residing in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center for Parsons the New School for Design. These images form the basis for the Fashion Design History Database, a growing electronic resource documenting the history of twentieth century American fashion. The database provides scholars with online access to primary research materials comprising the extensive holdings of the Kellen Archives Center. |
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| Acknowledgements |
Initial database design and prototyping of the Fashion Design History Database was initially made possible through the generosity of the Coby Foundation, Ltd.
Additional digitizing/oai funds were awarded from the Metropolitan New York Library Council and a 2005/2006 digitization grant from their Regional Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program.
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| About the Collection |
The images that comprise the Fashion Design History Database reflect the metamorphosis of women's fashion from the 1920s through the 1970s. Exploring themes of functionality and form, the designers whose work is represented in the database demonstrate the ways in which fashion has evolved along with women's changing roles.
A source of inspiration and instruction, the Fashion Design History Database provides users with primary source materials that illustrate the design process from concept to production to market introduction, created by the masters who revolutionized the fashion industry. The database's images have been scanned at a high resolution (600dpi TIF, 24-bit color), enabling researchers to view erasure marks and line starts and stops and, consequently, to perceive the process of design as well as its object.
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