Inspiring Beauty
50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5706594 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Barnes (0000-0002-3948-2049), Nicole M Barnes (University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 786-790 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat456 |
| OpenAlex | W2319296677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Fashion seems to be the museum world's latest obsession. In the summer of 2013 the venerable Art Institute of Chicago was host to three fashion-themed special exhibits held together by its much-anticipated “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” exhibition In 2006 the Chicago History Museum (chm), which housed a dormant collection of some fifty thousand costumes for over twenty years, showcased “Dior: The New Look” with about half of its Christian Dior couture collection. The next year the chm partnered with Valerie Steele, the celebrated fashion historian and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, for a New York City showing of “Chic Chicago,” an exhibit that showcased the best of the chm's costume collection and the elegant Chicago women who wore them. With the public desire for fashion exhibits still red hot, the chm is making costume and apparel signature aspects of its acquisition
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Beauty · Clothing · Exhibition · Fashion design · Modernity · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |