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Costume design

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the design of costumes for the stage, screen, or special events. Works on the design of clothing and accessories for personal wear are entered under Fashion design.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond Driscoll scrapbook and fashion sketches

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0013-01
Summary

With a career that spanned the 1930s to the 1960s, Raymond Driscoll (1915-2004) was perhaps most widely known for his annual best and worst-dressed lists. He also gained recognition for his costume designs for Mexican film stars. The collection consists of Driscoll's scrapbook of photographs, clippings, invitations, and greeting cards from celebrities documenting his work in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as original fashion sketches.

Dates: circa 1942 - 1961

Robert Mackintosh costume and fashion design work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0105-01
Summary Robert Mackintosh (1925-1998) was a costume and fashion designer whose design career spanned forty years and twenty Broadway productions. He made his Broadway debut designing costumes for the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here. In the 1960s, Mackintosh branched out into womenswear design with Musette, a juniors label, which was sold at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He went on to design various other womens and menswear lines in the 1970s. ...
Dates: 1945 - 1998

Sydney Fromkes student portfolio

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0163-01
Abstract

A leather portfolio embossed with "Sydney Fromkes, 1910-1927" on the front, containing student work from the brief time Fromkes attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art before his death in 1927 at the age of 17. The portfolio contains theatrical costume drawings, poems, and other writings.

Dates: circa 1925-1927