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When Does a Designer Become a House?

Institutions of One × Fashion, Build room, dossier B01

From RN Collins, selected work

The dossier chapter, the sources behind it, further reading and the collection images, each linked to the original.

The articleWhen Does a Designer Become a House? institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Project of the Fashion Industries Oral History Series: Bonnie Cashin 1982. FIT Special Collections, 1982-05-26; digitized 2020. archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu
  2. Parsons School of Design Fashion Design Department records. The New School Archives, 1941-2008.
  3. Gianfranco Ferré Research Center. Politecnico di Milano / Google Arts & Culture, center established 2021. artsandculture.google.com
  4. FIT oral histories collection, 1967-2023. FIT Gladys Marcus Library, 1967-2023. sparc.fitnyc.edu
  5. Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements, Version 3. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2023-06. archives.gov
  6. Collections Care. Smithsonian Institution Archives, current. siarchives.si.edu

Other sources

  1. Dress designed by Ann Lowe. National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1950s; record accessed 2026-09-07. si.edu
  2. The Hidden History of American Fashion. Smithsonian Libraries, 2018. si.edu
  3. Chinese American fashion designer oral-history digitization project. National Archives and Records Administration, 2024. archives.gov
  4. The source notes for dossier B01: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  5. The B01 instrument, a working tool for this dossier institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  6. The rights desk: every source in the exhibition and the terms for using it institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Images, slide by slide

The featured object, "Look closely"
House of Worth, Ball gown, ca. 1872. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 46.25.1a-d. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 2 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Fancy dress costume, ca. 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.1363a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 3 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Afternoon dress, ca. 1874. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.259.2a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 4 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Dinner dress, ca. 1877. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25.63a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 5 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Coat, 1898. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, C.I.45.95.12. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 6 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Evening ensemble, 1893. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.622a-c. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 7 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Wedding dress, 1896. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, C.I.41.14.1. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 8 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Opera cape, ca. 1899. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.134.19. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
Object 9 in "Look at the material record"
House of Worth, Evening coat, 1901. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.64. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record

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