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Fashion illustration.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: The activity of drawing or painting illustrations of fashionable apparel and accessories, especially for advertisement.

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

André and Creators Studios fashion drawings

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0011-01
Summary

André and Creators Studios were Seventh Avenue fashion firms that marketed their designs to clothing manufacturers by subscription. In the mid-1970s Pearl Alexander Lipman, André's co-owner and designer since the 1930s, retired, and André's design drawings were sold to Creators Studios. The collection consists of design reproductions created and distributed by the two companies between 1937 and 1972.

Dates: 1937 - 1972

Bob Hiemstra fashion and concept illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0132-01
Summary

The collection consists of approximately 500 professional illustrations by Parsons School of Design alumnus Bob Hiemstra, from the beginning of the 1980s into the early 1990s, when he produced fashion and spot illustrations for a wide range of magazines, newspapers, cosmetic companies and department stores.

Dates: circa 1975-1994

Carl Erickson (Eric) fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0041-01
Abstract

Carl Erickson (1891-1958), who signed his work "Eric," was a leading fashion illustrator whose drawings appeared in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, among other publications. In 1964, Parsons School of Design hosted a retrospective of Erickson's work. The New School Archives' collection consists of fourteen works, possibly originating from that exhibit.

Dates: 1949

Carol Loebelsohn fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0148-01
Summary

The Carol Loebelsohn fashion illustrations represent a sampling of the professional and teaching work of Parsons School of Design alumna and faculty member Carol Loebelsohn. The bulk of the over 150 illustrations covers the 1960s into the 1990s, and includes a variety of media and drawing techniques.

Dates: 1947 - 1994

Cory Benett Bloomingdale's shopping bag collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0149-01
Summary

The collection consists of over one hundred shopping bags, primarily produced by Bloomingdale's department store and acquired by Cory Benett, a Bloomingdale's employee, for his personal enjoyment. The mostly paper bags feature art and design work by major designers, artists, and photographers of the late 1970s through the early 1990s. The collection also contains a small number of bags from other retailers.

Dates: 1975-1999

Elizabeth Cornell fashion design illustrations

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: KA-0150-01
Abstract

This collection of 24 drawings and paintings consists of women’s and men’s fashion illustrations created by Elizabeth Cornell, probably in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The illustrations mostly depict women’s and men’s wear, accessories, and fabric patterns.

Dates: late 1920s-early 1930s

Esta Nesbitt fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0086-01
Summary Esta Nesbitt (1918-1975), an instructor at Parsons School of Design from 1964 to 1974, created fashion illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and New York Times Magazine. Later in her career, Nesbitt used innovative printing methods as a children's book illustrator, and experimented with Xerography. The collection primarily consists of 271 fashion illustrations, pre-publication...
Dates: 1944 - 1964

Fred Brenner fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0153-01
Abstract

Fred Brenner (1920-2006) was a fashion illustrator specializing in menswear, who taught illustration at Parsons School of Design from 1962 until 1984. This collection is comprised of approximately forty original fashion illustrations, as well as a smaller number of publications featuring his work, reprints and pre-print process work.

Dates: 1944-1970s