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The Fashion and Textile History Gallery

INTRODUCTION

 

The Fashion and Textile History Gallery features a rotating display of 100 important objects from the museum’s permanent collection.

The objects span 250 years of fashion and textiles, and provide a context for the changing thematic exhibitions in the museum’s lower-level gallery. The gallery opens in a room with an introduction to the museum’s collections and facilities, such as the work of the conservation laboratory. For example, a display showing objects before and after restoration depicts the intricacies of conserving fragile garments. The following three rooms provide a chronological survey of fashion and textile history. Drawing on the museum’s extensive collections, a cocktail dress from 1957 by the great couturier Cristobal Balenciaga, for example, can be compared with a contemporary ensemble designed by Nicolas Ghesquière for the house of Balenciaga.Visitors can immediately get a sense of how much the world has changed over the past 50 years.

 

Nicholas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga     Cristobal Balenciaga

  

Toledo- Circle of Fashion Introduction

 Toledo- Circle of Fashion 1750-1899
    Toledo- Circle of Fashion 1950-present Toledo- Circle of Fashion 1900-1949
   
 
 
   

This exhibition was made possible in part through the generosity of Elle Magazine and Redken. Additional support was provided by the members of the Couture Council.

Elle Magazine             

All photographs by Irving Solero, courtesy of the Museum at FIT, unless otherwise noted.

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