Allie Malakoff ’20 has worked as a research assistant in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection since the fall of her freshman year in 2016. She is majoring in Fashion Design Management and looks forward to working in the fashion industry. She is a member of Delta Gamma and has modeled for her sorority sister […]
Blog post by Claudia Libow ’19. For as long as I can remember, I dreamed of working in fashion. I was drawn to the rigorous, fast-paced and dynamic industry and couldn’t wait to be done with school and enter the “real world,” as I still call it today. I came to Cornell and thrived in […]
Attention Cornell Students: Apply for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellowship in the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection! The late Dr. Charlotte Jirousek, former curator of the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection (CCTC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, was passionate about integrating the CCTC into the educational experience […]
Tuyen began working in the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection this past academic year and will be working with us this summer! She is majoring in Fashion Design Management and Cornell class of 2020. When did you begin working in the collection and what inspired you to join the CCTC? I helped out […]
Blog post by Jacklyn DeVito ’18. The Cornell Costume and Textile Collection holds an array of childrenswear dating back to the eighteenth century. Garments of each time period share common elements, which serve to represent the values and standards of each respective era. As societal expectations of children’s behavior evolved over the 19th and 20th […]
Regina Mun is a junior majoring in fashion design. From developing expertise in dressing Japanese kimono to helping with exhibition installations and our inventory project, Regina has spent the last three years making herself invaluable to us! She’s studying abroad this semester at ESMOD (École supérieure des arts et techniques de la mode). She is […]
Jacqueline Fogarty ’18 majors in Fashion Design and will debut her senior collection in the 34th annual Cornell Fashion Collective show this coming Saturday! In addition to finding inspiration from the collection, she also uses her design skills to enhance our exhibitions. From suspending Liberian quilts from the ceiling of the Jill Stuart Gallery to […]
The Cornell Costume & Textile Collection (CCTC) provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to be employed as research assistants, which allows them to contribute to the collection in many ways: they conduct original research, curate exhibitions, catalogue and accession new donations, assist with photography, database management, and conservation, provide social media content, help to arrange […]
Blog post by Dr. Denise N. Green ’07 Believe it or not, my career was sparked by the First Ladies of Texas. I attended high school in a Dallas suburb and during my senior year I went on a field trip to the Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection. While I had visited every possible […]