Menswear fashion sketch collection
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0099.
Summary
Eighteen original fashion illustrations donated by the menswear fashion magazine, DNR (Daily News Record). Sketches in the collection are executed in colored pencil, marker, and watercolors. Designers represented include John Rocha, Tommy Hilfiger, Nina Ricci, Claude Montana, Jose Levy, Paco Rabanne, Gilles Rosier, Joseph Abboud, and Olivier Strelli.
Dates
- 1995 - 1997
Creator
- Abboud, Joseph (Designer, Person)
- Hilfiger, Tommy (Designer, Person)
- Levy, José (Designer, Person)
- Montana, Claude (Designer, Person)
- Rabanne, Paco (Designer, Person)
- Ricci, Nina (Designer, Person)
- Rocha, John (Designer, Person)
- Rosier, Gilles (Designer, Person)
- Strelli, Olivier, 1946- (Designer, Person)
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (18 illustrations)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents of Collection
Sketches in the collection are executed in colored pencil, marker, and watercolor. The largest sketches, featuring designs by Gilles Rosier and Olivier Strelli, are accompanied by fabric swatches. Sketches are identified by designer and signed by the illustrator. Some are also dated.
Designers represented include Joseph Abboud, Tommy Hilfiger, José Levy, Claude Montana, Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci, John Rocha, Gilles Rosier, and Olivier Strelli. Each designer is represented by one to three sketches. In most cases, illustrators could not be identified.
The sketches in the collection may have been published in DNR. One sketch by Olivier Strelli is annotated, "for DNR."
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical note
The sketches in this collection were donated by the Daily News Record--often identified simply as DNR--a trade journal published by Fairchild Publications. Established in Chicago in 1890, DNR exclusively covered menswear, while another Fairchild journal, Womens Wear Daily (or WWD) concentrated on women's fashion. Fairchild Publications was acquired by Condé Nast in 1993 and DNR stopped publishing in 2008.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged by size and within each size by designer.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Daily News Record, 1997.
- DNR (New York, N.Y.) (Uniform_title) Subject Source: Local sources
- Fashion design (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Men's clothing (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Men's clothing industry (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sketches (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Menswear fashion sketch collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- July 26, 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin