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Let the (Sewing) Circle
Be Unbroken at the
KSU Museum

Volunteer area seamstresses who ply their trade throughout the year at the Kent State University Fashion Museum are preparing clothes for a show focusing on Gazette du Bon Ton, an early 20th–century French fashion magazine that revolutionized the field of fashion illustration.

The show, slated for a summer 2009 opening, will feature editions of the magazine donated by Joseph O’Sicky, noted painter and former Kent State professor. Although the Kent State University Fashion Museum boasts dozens of volunteers whose roles range from retail clerk to docent, museum administrators are quick to welcome additional men and women to aid in operating and maintaining the vast building, its Horning Road annex and its ever growing roster of collections.

In fact, the museum’s holdings now include clothing and accoutrement from the late actress and fashion icon Katharine Hepburn. The much anticipated showing of donations from the Hepburn estate is among the highlights planned for 2010 when the museum will mark its 25th year.

   
     
         
               

The Thread that Binds:
Fashion Museum Volunteers Mesh behind the Scenes

Against a Backdrop of Fashion…

  
KSU Museum volunteer Dorothy Jordan uses a fine needle to repair a high-fashion garment set to appear in the Gazette du Bon Ton exhibition. Spanning many centuries and haling from many parts of the world, these dresses are a part of “The Art of the Embroiderer” exhibition at the fashion museum.
     
AGAINST A BACKDROP OF FASHION
Meet the talented volunteers who are preserving haute coutre one stitch at a time at the KSU Museum adjoining the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. JMC Professors Michele Ewing, Karen Kastner and Jan Leach are your tour guides with a Web video, an audio slide show and a series of pictures they produced in May 2009.		  
These garments are among those featured at the KSU Museum as a part of the Michael Kors Designs from the Wendy Zuckertwise Ritter Collection. Rudi Gernreich’s “Bold” designs for American sportswear, including his notorious topless bathing suit, grace the Mull and Palmer Galleries at the fashion museum.
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