Other Museum Websites (gallery)

The Costume Institute - The MET

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

The redesigned Costume Institute space reopened in May 2014, after a two-year renovation, as the Anna Wintour Costume Center with the exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion. The complex includes the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery, the main showcase space with a flexible design that lends itself to frequent transformation with video, sound, and wireless technology. . Behind the scenes is a state-of-the-art costume conservation laboratory; a study/storage facility to house the combined holdings of The Costume Institute and Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection; and The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, one of the world's foremost fashion libraries.

Web Resources Fashion Illustration

• Fashion Illustration Gallery

• Couture - David Downton

• Studio Piet Paris

• Fashion Drawing and Illustration in the 20th Century

• Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection (Online)

• Creators Studios drawing of the 50s and 60s

How Fashion Illustrator Bil Donovan Became Dior’s First Artist In Residence

With the sad, slow death of print media, there’s one unlikely phoenix that has risen from the ashes of the glossy magazines that have folded in the past decade.

We’ll let fashion illustrator Bil Donovan explain: “Social media has re-energized fashion illustration. Anyone can see it.” He pointed out these fanciful paintings or drawings once lived only within the pages of a glossy magazine, but now can be consumed on apps like Instagram and websites like Facebook or Tumblr. “It’s created a new audience, so to speak. It’s an audience that really has an appreciation for the work, which to me, is incredible.”

Available at: https://observer.com/2017/08/bil-donovan-fashion-illustrator-dior/