The Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection was founded in 1915 by Professor Beulah Blackmore to better educate students about world dress, couture fashion, functional design, ready-to-wear, and textile arts. We continue to collect items that exemplify these goals and occasionally we receive pieces that not only encapsulate fashion’s reach but also commemorate the makers and […]
Author: Catherine Blumenkamp
APPLY for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection
We invite Cornell students to apply for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC). Award winners will be given the opportunity to conduct research about a topic of their choice and curate a fashion exhibition in the Human Ecology Building Display Cases, located on Level T of the Human […]
Tracing the story of three dresses over three generations
Written by Helen McLallen In the mid 1950s, Elizabeth K. Starkweather donated several dozen family garments to the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) and a group of family papers to the Cornell University Library Rare and Manuscripts Collections (RMC). Among them were three dresses, all made from the same simple and delicate red and […]
APPLY for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship in the CF+TC
We invite Cornell students to apply for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC). Award winners will be given the opportunity to conduct research about a topic of their choice and curate a fashion exhibition in the Human Ecology Building Display Cases, located on Level T of the Human […]
Dressing the Circus
Ithaca, N.Y. – The Cornell Costume and Textile Collection will launch an exhibition titled Dressing the Circus on February 22, 2022. This explores the history, fashion, function, and labor behind circus costume, and is curated by Jenny Leigh Du Puis, PhD Candidate ’22 as part of her dissertation research on circus costume. From the glitz […]