Costumes Gallery Catalogue

Excerpt from Catalogue of Rare Old English Silver: Mostly Genuine Antique English Sterling of the Early Georgian Periods From a London CollectorBuyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash pay ments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold.Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so te moved they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorpo... [Read More]

William Ivey Long (b. 1947) is a leading costume designer for the stage, film, and television, whose creativity, artistry, and craftsmanship have earned him ovations throughout the theater community and beyond. A defining presence on Broadway, he has won six Tony Awards for costume design and a National Arts Award for Fashion. Ivey is unique in the history of costume design, operating at once in the atelier traditions of court costumers of Louis XIV and in the dazzling mode of contemporary Pari... [Read More]

This colourful and informative publication has been released in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, beginning at the National Gallery of Victoria in September 1998. It surveys the history of textile production across Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, in both rural and urban communities.

Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, “out-of-this-world” clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco’s rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and social change. Presenting key cul... [Read More]

A tie-in to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores Andy Warhol's impact on the fashion industry and the art world as a whole throughout the years, complete with photographs of his department store displays, his silkscreen portraits, and more.

A dazzling tour of selected highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection of fashionable dresses beginning with several masterpieces by the father of haute couture, Charles Frederick Worth, most of which were made for and owned (or yearned after) by American women.The first garments collected by the museum after its founding in 1876 provided early costume historians with a rich resource for the study of historic American dress, and with the opening of the first costume galleries un... [Read More]

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Candace Wheeler emerged as the leading American textile designer of the late nineteenth century by educating herself to match and then surpass the accomplishments of advanced European designers. Moving from embroidery to the design of fabrics and interiors, she wrote influential books on decorating and was a driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. This book contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of over 100 designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other inte... [Read More]