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- Drawing: Dress with dolman sleeves and billowing skirt
- Lopez, Antonio, 1943-1987 (artist); James, Charles, 1906-1978 (designer)
- 1973
- Subject description is based on the document provided by Charles James at the time of the donation.
- Dress
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- 1947
- Ballerina Maria Tallchief donated this dress, the Museum's only piece from Dior's historic first collection. Tallchief was prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet for eighteen years and later became the artistic director of Chicago's Lyric...
- Dress
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- 1948
- This gown is an example of the New Look introduced by Christian Dior in 1948.
- Dress
- Saint Laurent, Yves (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- 1958
- Object was donated and worn by dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (Mrs. Thomas Hart Fisher).
- Ensemble: dress, jacket, and collar
- Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
- 1956
- Object was donated and worn by dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (Mrs. Thomas Hart Fisher).
- Ensemble: jacket and skirt
- 1947
- Ensemble: jacket and skirt
- Adrian, 1903-1959 (designer); Marshall Field & Company (distributor)
- 1948
- Worn by Mrs. Bliss née Sherl Becker (b. October 19, 1909) for business occasions during the day. Mrs. Bliss wore the dress with a chartreuse blouse and black shoes.
- Military uniform
- Mainbocher, 1891-1976 (designer)
- circa 1942
- Margaret Heing (b. 2/24/1911) wore this Navy WAVES uniform designed by Mainbocher when she married Mortimer Abramson on February 1, 1947. Margaret's family had been in Chicago since the 1840s and she graduated from DePaul University in 1933. She...
- Overcoat
- James, Charles, 1906-1978 (designer)
- 1958
- This coat was once a set of drapes that hung in the apartment of Mrs. Potter Palmer II where Mrs. Eugene Davidson moved following Mrs. Palmer's death. The drapes did not suit Mrs, Davidson, so she took them to James and asked him to create a coat...