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How a Fashion House Transfers Tacit Knowledge

Institutions of One × Fashion, Carry room, dossier CA09

From RN Collins, selected work

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

The articleHow a Fashion House Transfers Tacit Knowledge institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. 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
  2. Gianfranco Ferré Research Center. Politecnico di Milano / Google Arts & Culture, center established 2021. artsandculture.google.com
  3. Gianfranco Ferré Research Center. Politecnico di Milano / Google Arts & Culture, current story. artsandculture.google.com
  4. Handmade for the 21st century: safeguarding traditional Indian textiles. UNESCO, 2022. unesdoc.unesco.org
  5. Patternmaking certificate. Fashion Institute of Technology, current. fitnyc.edu
  6. Introducing Cristóbal Balenciaga. Victoria and Albert Museum, updated 2024-04-17. vam.ac.uk
  7. Garment Industry Compliance Assistance Toolkit. U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, updated 2025-09-23. dol.gov
  8. Decent Work in the Garment Sector Supply Chains in Asia. International Labour Organization, project record current; accessed 2026-09-04. ilo.org

Other sources

  1. Oral history. Museum of Modern Art, program current; accessed 2026-09-07. moma.org
  2. Cooper Hewitt Collection API. Cooper Hewitt, current; accessed 2026-09-07. collection.cooperhewitt.org
  3. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. UNESCO, current; accessed 2026-09-07. ich.unesco.org
  4. Internet Archive Scholar. Internet Archive, current; accessed 2026-09-07. scholar.archive.org
  5. Pattern making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  6. Complete course in dressmaking: Draping and Pattern Making. Internet Archive, 1922. archive.org
  7. The Keystone jacket and dress cutter. Internet Archive, 1895. archive.org
  8. Secrets of Balenciaga’s construction. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
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  10. Sew your own: kimono-inspired dress. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  11. Contemporary fashion designers on Balenciaga. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2023; accessed 2026-09-07. vam.ac.uk
  12. The source notes for dossier CA09: every claim, its evidence label and its sources institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  13. The CA09 instrument, a working tool for this dossier institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app
  14. The rights desk: every source in the exhibition and the terms for using it institutions-of-one-fashion.vercel.app

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House of Worth, Ensemble, 1893. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.300.620a-e. Public Domain / Met Open Access.Public Domain / Met Open AccessPhoto record

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