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RIP Lea Gottlieb
I was so saddened by the news that fashion designer Lea Gottlieb passed away last Saturday afternoon, she was 94. She lived long and exciting life and inspired many with energy, love of life, and her...
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Mystery Monday: Happy Thanksgiving!
Mystery Monday will return next week on November 26. Victor, Sally. “Airwave” hat, 1952. White and magenta felted wool strips arranged in concentric rings. Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art. As...
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Mystery Monday
The holiday season is a time for parades, festivals, and celebration. And another mystery! These girls are participating in an annual parade in Maine. For what famous inventor is this parade named?...
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Mystery Monday: Chester Greenwood and His Ear Protectors
The Town: Farmington, Maine The Inventor: Chester Greenwood The Event: The Chester Greenwood Day Parade Brownies with homemade snowflakes. Photo from “In celebration of Farmington’s Chester Greenwood”....
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Fashionista Friday – Madeleine Vionnet’s Roses
Evening dress, Madeleine Vionnet, ca. 1929, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every once in a while, the influence of a particular designer seems to permeate the fashion industry all at once. These days, it...
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Mystery Monday
Monday has arrived, and so has another mystery: What is the name of this headpiece? Is it purely decorative? If not, what is its purpose? Think you know? Submit your guesses and we’ll reveal the answer...
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Fashion and Technology at the MFIT
Ariele Elia, graduate of our program and contributor to this blog, co-curated along side Emma McClendon, the recent exhibition Fashion and Technology at the MFIT History Gallery. The exhibition opened...
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Mystery Monday: The Oorijzer
Brass ear iron, fourth quarter of the nineteenth century. Copyright the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yes, this headdress is called an oorijzer, Dutch for “ear iron”. The Oorijzer is unique to the...
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Fashionista Friday – the Capel Sisters
Fashionista Friday – the Capel Sisters Sir Peter Lely, Mary Capel (1630-1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633-1678), Countess of Carnarvon, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum...
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Mystery Monday
A is for answer and Q is for question: This is a page from a frequently referenced historical work. Within it, the author describes the origins of silk in a mysterious and distant land. Who authored...
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Mystery Monday: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Book XXXVII of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, text completed in 1476 and illuminations completed c1480 in Venice. Printed on vellum, 414 x 280 mm. This is a translation by Cristoforo Landino of the...
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Mystery Monday
The end of the semester has arrived, allowing us to trade our thinking caps for party hats without any sense of guilt or irresponsibility! Those of us who celebrate Chanukah have already traded our...
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Mystery Monday: The Gazette du Bon Ton and Georges Doeuillet
Marty, André-Edouard. “Les Deux Nigauds – Robe de réveillon de Doeuillet”, 1914. Lithograph with hand-applied color, 25.4 cm x 19.1 cm. Plate VII from the Gazette du Bon Ton, Volume 2, Number 1,...
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Mystery Monday
A new year, a new you? As you think about the upcoming year, are you planning to learn a new skill or to break a behavioral pattern? While you draft your goals, take a moment to marvel at this...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about...
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Designer Highlight: Muriel King
Muriel King modeling her own design. Vogue, April 15, 1933. source: Vogue digital archive Mostly forgotten today Muriel King, an illustrator turned designer, was on the rise during the 1930s. She was...
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Mystery Monday: Charles James, American Couturier
Readers, thank you for your patience this past week. Here is the solution to last Monday’s mystery: Happy New Year, Readers! We had There were some great guesses this week, including the correct...
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Mystery Monday
In textile design, history repeats itself as the next generation discovers the patterns of the past, when the result of this analysis leads not to innovation but to replication. While some view these...
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Mystery Monday: Owen Jones
Yes, Owen Jones designed this textile. Jones, Owen. Italian, 1873. Silk textile, 45.1 x 47 cm. Manufactured by Warner and Sons. Accession number 2000.46 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jones (1809...
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Mystery Monday
Last week’s mystery was about drawing inspiration from the past, and this week’s mystery is about the drawings of the past: Who drew this fashion illustration? Think you know? Submit your guess below;...
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