books on the history of fashion and design, etc.
French men's shoes, 1690–1700, embroidered silk and leather, from the collection of the Costume Institute.
A way to learn all about fashion from home :)
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Digitized Fashion and Textile Exhibitions :
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Chicago History Museum:
- Charles James: Genius Deconstructed
Cooper Hewitt: Short and sweet, with a paragraph or two on the exhibitions on the whole, and then lots of lovely images and links to all items included in the exhibitions.
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- Color Decoded: The Textiles of Richard Landis
- Paisley
- Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color
- The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem:
- Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe
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Kent State University Museum:
- Inside Out: Revealing Clothing's Hidden Secrets
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Extensive exhibition websites for the Costume Institute.
-Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955-1960
- The Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Scheier Collection
Museum at FIT: They do an incredible job with online versions of their exhibitions. They have a list for all their online versions of past exhibitions, but here's a selection of some I particularly enjoyed:
- American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
- Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse
- The Body: Fashion and Physique
- Eleanor Lambert: Empress of Seventh Avenue
- Elegance in the Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s
- Faking It: Originals, Copies, and Counterfeits
- Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out
-Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color
- Power Mode: The Force of Fashion
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- Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulh
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Portland Art Museum:
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Rijksmuseum:
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Seattle Art Museum:
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The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, UK:
- "Found Among The Printing Blocks," at The Silk Museum in Macclesfield, UK
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