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Gentleman of Fashion: Oscar de la Renta
Celebrated this year with two monographic exhibitions, Oscar de la Renta was a world renowned fashion designer, whose life intertwined with the most successful stories of fashion history.
Christmas cards to enjoy Christmas time!
Europeana Fashion presents December’s Tumblr Curation by Rossimoda shoe museum with a huge collection of Christmas Cards.
Since the middle age the habit to send greeting cards to the acquaintances“Oscar de la Renta”: the exhibition at SCAD!
At SCAD FASH in Atalanta, the inaugural exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s new museum of fashion celebrates the illustrious life and designs of the couturier whose work was said to have set the standard for timeless elegance.
History of a couturier: Pierre Balmain
Pierre Balmain was born in 1914 in St. Jean de Maurienne. His father owned a wholesale drapery business and his mother worked at a boutique.
After a childhood spent playing with fabrics in the shop where his mother used to work, BalmainFrom the Archive: Socks
Winter is coming and temperature lowers… so why don’t you browse Europeana Fashion’s collections of warm socks?
“VIVA MOSCHINO!” at Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Until April 3rd 2016, the Mint Museum in North Carolina, USA, hosts the first American retrospective on the work of Franco Moschino, the designer that during the 80s mocked the fashion system with his irreverent designs.
Crinolines: underwear at the time of Queen Victoria
The steel-hooped cage crinolines, first patented in April 1856 by R.C. Milliet in Paris, and by their agent in Britain a few months later, became extremely popular across the Western world, where they were worn by women of every social standing and class.
From the Archive: Piero Tosi
Find in Europeana Fashion collection some of the gowns and costumes worn in the greatest movies of film history!
Fashion History: Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay Terk, the first avant-garde representative in fashion of ‘900, was born in Ucraina in 1885. After studied art in Sain Petersburg, she moved to Paris in 1906 and started to paint under the influence of Van Gogh and Gauguin works.
November tumblr curation by Museo Salvatore Ferragamo.
To present the exhibition about the history of its own seat, Palazzo Spini Feroni, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo curates Europeana Fashion Tumblr during the month of November!
Celebrating the 150 years since Florence was named capital of the Kingdom of Italy and Palazzo Spini Feroni