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Seven Seasons of Signal

Institutions of One × Fashion, Build room, dossier B09

From RN Collins, selected work

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

The articleSeven Seasons of Signal institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Alexander McQueen, Explore the Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum, collection current. vam.ac.uk
  2. Introducing Cristóbal Balenciaga. Victoria and Albert Museum, updated 2024-04-17. vam.ac.uk
  3. Alexander McQueen, an introduction. Victoria and Albert Museum, updated 2024-04-17. vam.ac.uk
  4. Protection for Fashion Design, Statement of the Register of Copyrights. U.S. Copyright Office, 2006-07-27. copyright.gov
  5. Useful Articles. U.S. Copyright Office, current; accessed 2026-09-05. copyright.gov
  6. Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure §1202.02, Registration of Trade Dress. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, current edition; accessed 2026-09-05. tmep.uspto.gov
  7. Gianfranco Ferré Research Center. Politecnico di Milano / Google Arts & Culture, center established 2021. artsandculture.google.com
  8. MoMu, Fashion Museum Antwerp. MoMu / Google Arts & Culture, museum opened 2002. artsandculture.google.com
  9. The Costume Institute collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection current; accessed 2026-09-05. metmuseum.org
  10. Project of the Fashion Industries Oral History Series: Bonnie Cashin 1982. FIT Special Collections, 1982-05-26; digitized 2020. archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu
  11. Interview of Christine Pupillo, Leonard Trattner, and Harry Greenberg of the Patternmaking Department. Fashion Institute of Technology Special Collections and College Archives, 1995-02-27; digitized 2020. archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu

Other sources

  1. Fashion in Motion. Victoria and Albert Museum, program current; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  2. The World of Anna Sui. Museum of Arts and Design, 2019. madmuseum.org
  3. Fashion collection. Victoria and Albert Museum, collection current; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  4. Bridesmaid dress. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1896; accessed 2026-09-07. metmuseum.org
  5. Wedding dress by Christian Dior. National Museum of American History, twentieth century; accessed 2026-09-07. americanhistory.si.edu
  6. Secrets of Balenciaga’s construction. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  7. Contemporary fashion designers on Balenciaga. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  8. The source notes for dossier B09: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  9. The B09 instrument, a working tool for this dossier institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  10. 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 cover image
House of Worth, Evening dress, ca. 1882. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.635a, b. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record
The featured object, "Look closely"
Toni Frissell, Sporting Look, evening fashions, 1956. Library of Congress, tofr.08422. Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set.Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated setPhoto record
Object 2 in "Look at the material record"
A. F. Jammes, Bridesmaid dress, 1896. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, C.I.41.14.2. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record

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