Institutions of One × Fashion · Sources

A Personal Brand Is Not an Institution

Institutions of One × Fashion, Build room, dossier B10

From RN Collins, selected work

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

The articleA Personal Brand Is Not an Institution 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. FIT oral histories collection, 1967-2023. FIT Gladys Marcus Library, 1967-2023. sparc.fitnyc.edu
  3. CFDA Resources. Council of Fashion Designers of America, current. cfda.com
  4. Personal Digital Archiving. Library of Congress, current; resources include 2013 publication. digitalpreservation.gov
  5. Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements, Version 3. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2023-06. archives.gov
  6. FIT Oral History: Ralph Lauren. FIT Special Collections, 1990-09-05. archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu
  7. Intellectual Property in Fashion. World Intellectual Property Organization, current; updated 2026-08-21. wipo.int
  8. Fashion, Beauty, and Intellectual Property: Trademarks. United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2024-02-20; updated 2024-02-26. uspto.gov

Other sources

  1. The Hidden History of American Fashion. Smithsonian Libraries, 2018. si.edu
  2. Chinese American fashion designer oral-history digitization project. National Archives and Records Administration, 2024. archives.gov
  3. Historical Resources: Fashion Industry. Library of Congress, updated 2026. guides.loc.gov
  4. The source notes for dossier B10: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  5. The B10 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

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