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 […]
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Gertrude Heim Klemm’s Deadly Wedding Dress
Blog post by Maya Pierce ’25 This online blog post features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. What does a bride wear to a wedding that doubles as a death sentence? For 1930s socialite Gertrude Heim Klemm the answer […]
Apply for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship in the CF+TC
Attention Cornell Students: 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 Display Cases, located on Level T of the […]
Senior Profile: Grace Anderson
Over the past four years, Grace Anderson has taken thousands of incredible photographs for the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection in her role as an undergraduate research assistant. We are so grateful for her incredible eye, technical skill, and aesthetic sensibility! She graduates this weekend with a Bachelor’s of Science in Fashion Design Management from […]
Senior Profile: Livia Caligor
Livia Caligor ’21 began working in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection as a first semester freshman and has continued to stay involved throughout her time at Cornell. She will graduate this weekend with a Bachelor’s of Science in Fashion Design Management and a minor in English. Read more below in our interview with Livia! […]
A Vogue Editor’s Wardrobe
Blog post by Jacklyn DeVito ’18. Dorothy Schefer Faux, Cornell Class of 1969 and renowned fashion and beauty editor, has kept our collection up-to-date with designs from some of the most important contemporary fashion designers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. During my four years working in the CF+TC (2014 – 2018) I […]
Senior Profile: Allie Malakoff
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 […]