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This collection contains scrapbooks and company records related to the Lord and Taylor department stores, primarily focused on the original stores in New York City. The scrapbook series consists of unbound pages of newspaper and magazine clippings of Lord and Taylor stores in New York City and the greater New York Area. Company records include advertising, photographs and illustrations of Lord and Taylor buildings, company catalogs, press releases and clippings, as well as internal company histories authored by Lord and Taylor. A small subseries relates to biographical information and photographs of former Lord and Taylor president Dorothy Shaver.

This folder contains biographies, 8x10" black and white portraits and 8x10" black and white studio photos, with press releases attached, of ensembles of/by: Ferdinando Sarmi, Roxane and Samuel Winston, Sol Klein and Nettie Rosenstein, Jacques Tiffeau and Rudi Gernreich. Also, included is a press release on Monte-Santo and Pruzan with two 5x7" color negatives of ensembles by Monte-Santo and Pruzan.

This collection is comprised of original sketches and photographs, business and promotional materials, and materials related to the fashion career of George Simonton as well as his work at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

This collection holds mostly advertisements and newspaper clippings, along with photographs relating to the work of fashion designer Lee Evans.

This series contains the files Lambert kept on designers, both client and non-client.

This collection is comprised of oral history interviews with prominent twentieth- and twenty-first-century fashion industry businesspeople, designers, and artists, as well as members of the FIT faculty and staff.

This collection is comprised of fashion sketches made for Hattie Carnegie, Inc. from 1940 - 1955. This collection contains millinery (hats) for which some designs can be attributed to Esther A. Kleeper in 1945. The remainder of the collection is ready-to-wear dresses and suits, along with evening wear, mostly ballgowns, that were adapted from French couturiers for the American woman. The sketches have been divided into millinery, ready-to-wear, and evening wear. Many of the sketches are not dated, but based upon a survey of the collection and dates of similar physical garments made by Hattie Carnegie, Inc. it is assumed that the sketches are from the aforementioned dates.

The Museum at FIT records are arranged into six (6) series; they are Administrative records, Exhibition records, Promotional material, Symposia records, Correspondence, and Fashion Culture records.

The Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon sketches collection contains 8,976 pencil, ink, and watercolor sketches by staff artists representing clothing and millinery available in Bergdorf's custom salon. These garments were made to order either from designs purchased by special arrangement from the leading coutouriers of the day or from sketches by Bergdorf's then well known in-house designers. Representative designers include Dior, Balenciaga, Halson and Courreges. House designers include Leslie Morris, Mary Gleason, and Bernard Newman. There is a complete run from 1950 to 1969. In addition, there is a representative sampling of sketches from the 1930s and 40s.
In addition to the sketches, the collection contains preliminary manuscripts and galley proofs of Booton Herndon's book Bergdorf's on the Plaza (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956) as well as typescripts of his interviews with and about members of the Goodman family and with and about such key members of the staff as Ethel Frankau, Odna Brandeis, and house designers Bernard Newman, Leslie Morris, and Mary Gleason.
The last series contains the original finding aid for the collection.

This interview opens with Mollie Parnis talking about her latest project, a prize for three young journalists that she began in memory of her son. She then segues into the origins of her company and her early biography. She commenced her career by designing blouses after being frustrated at the quality of the designs while working in a design showroom on Madison Avenue. The Parnis-Livingston company began in a studio Seventh Avenue about five-years after Mollie Parnis and Leon Livingston married in 1930, with Mollie designing and Leon managing the business needs. After her husband died in 1960 she closed the business for three-months. Diana Vreeland convinced Mollie to stay open by putting two of her sketches in Harper’s Bazaar. The name of the business remained Parnis-Livingston until 1970 when it changed to Mollie Parnis. She now has three divisions: Mollie Parnis, Inc.; Mollie Parnis Studio; and Mollie Parnis at Home. Upon success, she began doing philanthropic work, including a grant foundation called “Mollie Parnis Dress up Your Neighborhood”; scholarships at FIT and Parsons; and the aforementioned journalistic prizes. Topics touched on include: the impersonalization of the current fashion industry; her friendship with various First Ladies, including Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, and Nancy Reagan; how the changes in the industry have necessitated changes in her business-model, including the prevalence of licensing from designers in the 1980s.

3 folders of Ramona Ramos' school work when she was a student at FIT. Includes sketches, examples of sewing, biographies of designers, paper patterns, report on millinery history, machine skills course work, and collages.

This collection is comprised of A. Beller & Co. sketches for womenswear designs, 1914 - 1929

This collection contains promotional materials, photographs, stationary and a fashion show program pertaining to the Traphagen School of Fashion.

This folder contains photographic reproductions of Antonio illustrations of designs by Mary McFadden, Perry Ellis, Jhane Barnes, Norma Kamali, Willi Smith, correspondence, a biography of Antonio.

This collection contains fashion illustrations (mainly garments) executed for Harper's Bazaar between the years of 1940-1942 by Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, Sara Johns and Reynaldo Luza. On the back of the illustrations there are Harper's Bazaar issue numbers that the illustrations were published in.

This collection cotains both original and photocopied sketches by Arnold Scassi ranging from 1966-1992. Each sketch is accompanied by a fabric swatch and is separated into 21 folders by the collection season ( i.e., Boutique Fall 92) Fabric content is often noted alongside an indication of its use. For example "Printed silk dress and jacket - dress has printed silk ruffle at neckline with white guipure lace edging. Jacket has matching ruffle cuffs." Included in some folders are pricelist, order forms and handwritten notes.

This collection contains fashion sketches (originals and digital facsimiles), fashion photographs, and press/promotional materials documenting the career of Stephen Burrows in the fashion industry from 1969-2012. There is a gap of press materials from 1990-2000 when he left Henri Bendel to open his own business on seventh avenue. His fragrance named, Stephen B., is briefly documented in photographs, press, and a silver wave necklace solid perfume. Ephemeral materials such as personal photographs and an E.R.A ribbon are also a part of the collection.

This collection is contains 262 original fashion sketches by John Derro.

This collection is comprised of 18 folders containing designer sketches, large fabric swatches many of which include embellishment, and press materials.

This collection consists of over 2500 sketches by designer Eric de Juan, from 1927 through 1989. The sketches include several done for Josephine Baker in 1949, as well as sketches from de Juan's two years spent as the in-house designer for the Bergdorf Goodman custom salon. Some sketches from the Bergdorf Goodman custom salon have swatches attached.

This series contains press materials, photographs, correspondance and miscellaneous ephemera related to the American Fashion Critics Awards sponsored by Coty, Inc.

This folder contains press releases, and designer bios for Claire McCardell, Sally Victor, and Phelps Associates. Also includes are 8x10" black and white headshots of Elizabeth Phelps, Sally Victor and a studio shot of two Adrian evening gowns.

This folder contains the award program for the 1944 COTY awards.

This folder contains newspaper clippings, handwritten notes and 8x10" black and white press photos of an event that featured a fashion show, circa 1965.

This folder contains one press release.

This folder contains 8x10" black and white photos of the COTY Womenswear Trophy, "Winnie", some with press releases attached, as well as 8x10" negatives. Also included is a 1977 catalog for the trophy manufacturer Malcolm & Hayes.

This folder contains designer biographies for Claire McCardell, Valentina, and 8x10" black and white head shots of Norman Norell and Lilly Daché.

This folder contains award programs, press releases, correspondence, transcripts of speeches, voting forms, and designer biographies.

This folder contains two 8x10" black and white press photos of the COTY Menswear Trophy with press releases attached and an 8x10" negative of the same image.

This folder contains press releases on the history of COTY, general correspondence and biographies of COTY executives and employees, some with head shots of the individual.

This folder contains press releases for the 1947 COTY award winners: Nettie Rosenstein, Jacob Horowitz and Mark Mooring as well as 8x10" black and white press photos and negatives of Nettie Rosenstein jewelry.

This folder contains the award program for the 1947 COTY awards.

This folder contains the 1948 COTY award program as well as 8x10" black and white photos of ensembles by Hattie Carnegie, De Leo, Esther Dorothy and Maximilian.

This folder contains the invitation and the award program for the 1945 COTY awards, press releases, cue sheet and script, correspondence, speech notes,

This folder contains press releases for the 1946 COTY award winners: Clare Potter, Oman Kam of Ben Reig, Vincent Monte-Sano, Carolyn Schnurer, Wallace Mackey Morris Wolock, Helen Morgan, Nina Wolf, Ceil Chapman, and Brooke Cadwaller.

This folder contains 8x10" headshots and designer biographies for Gilbert Adrian, Tina Leser, and Emily Wilkens. One 8x10" black and white studio photo of an day suit by Hattie Carnegie.

This folder contains 8x10" black and white candid photos of the award ceremony, portraits of Pauline Trigere and Toni Owen and press releases for the 1949 AFCA.

This folder contains press releases and press photographs for the 1948 COTY award winners: Maximilian, Joseph De Leo, Hattie Carnegie, and Esther Dorothy.

This folder contains press releases for Vera Maxwell, Norman Norell, Pauline Trigere, Jane Darby, Anne Fogarty, Sylvia Pedlar, as well as 8x10" black and white portraits, with press releases attached, of Sylvia Pedlar, Jane Derby, and Pauline Trigere.

This folder contains one program from the 1951 AFCA and a list of the jury members.

This folder contains correspondence, award programs, press releases, and one 8x10" black and white photo of a Bonnie Cashin ensemble.

This folder contains an award program, press clippings and press releases for the 1949 AFCA.

This folder contains a biography on Helen Lee, and Talmack with a 8x10" black and white photograph of Mattie Talmack and partner John Moore.

This folder contains press releases, awards show programs, and one 8x10" black and white photograph of a Hattie Carnegie suit.

This folder contains a biography of Sydney Wragge, biographies with 8x10" black and white portraits of Ben Zuckerman and Karen Stark for Harvey Berin as well as 8x10" black and white portraits, with press releases attached, of Luis Estevez and Ben Sommers of Capezio.

This folder contains an award program and press releases.

This folder contains awards programs, press releases, timetables, and correspondence for the 1957 AFCA.

This folder contains award show programs, press releases, correspondence and two 8x10" black and white photos of an award being presented to Luis Estevez.

This folder contains a ticket, correspondence and timetable for the 1955 AFCA.

This folder contains press releases, award programs a biography of Bonnie Cashin, award show timetables, and 8x10" black and white photos of the awards show.

This folder contains award programs, invitations,, press clippings, press releases, and 8x10" black and white photos of the awards show.

This folder contains award programs, press releases, speech transcripts, correspondence, lists of models' shoe sizes, list of invitees, budgets, and press clippings.

This folder contains awards programs, press releases, invitations, biographies of Bill Blass, correspondence, press clippings, and 8x10" black and white photos of the awards show.

This folder contains press releases, press clippings, and correspondence.

This folder contains two copies of the 1967 AFCA award program.

This folder contains an award show programs and press releases.

This folder contains press releases, invitations, press clippings, a Pfizer report to share owners, scripts, and correspondence.

This folder contains 8x10" black and white photographs of the awards show, 8x10" negatives of some of these images and press releases.

This folder contains press releases.