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Hollywood Scandal! Edith Head and Celanese “Star in Crepe”

with Kevin Jones of ASU-FIDM

Wednesday, April 30th

7 - 9 PM PDT

Edith Head with sketch pad
This is a convoluted story of eleven dresses in the ASU FIDM Museum’s Hollywood Costume Collection. The collection came as a loan to the Fashion Institute of Design & 
Merchandising in 1990 from the City of Los Angeles, after being stored in an abandoned city jail for more than twenty years. Many of the garments have been exhibited around the world as authentic; however, half of these gowns are spurious. Which famous dresses are these? Who were the movie queens wearing such beautiful creations? Have any of the original dresses survived? Stay tuned for the ending to this most dramatic Hollywood Scandal!
The Zoom link will be emailed on 4/28/25.
 

Meet the instructor: 

Kevin in a Pink Tie

KEVIN JONES joined the FIDM Museum (now the ASU FIDM Museum at the downtown Los Angeles campus of Arizona State University) as collections manager in 1999, and was appointed curator in 2002. He oversees the Museum’s more than 15,000-piece dress collection that spans 400 years of history. Born in Ventura, CA, Kevin studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and art
history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kevin’s fashion and social history expertise encompasses the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, and his diverse exhibitions cover Hollywood to high fashion. In 2009, Kevin co-curated the Richard Martin Award-winning exhibition, catalogue, and documentary High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture. In 2011, he co-curated the exhibition and catalogue FABULOUS! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions, 2000-2010. And in partnership with the American Federal of Arts, he co-curated the 2021 exhibition Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girl 1800 to 1960 that recently completed a three-year, nation-wide tour, and is scheduled to open at the ASU FIDM Museum Galleries during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The accompanying 344-page catalogue won the Costume Society of America’s prestigious Millia Davenport Publication Award.

  

Registration fee:  $15 for CGW Members
                              $20 for non-members

Zoom links will be emailed to students on April 28, 2025, after 5pm.

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