Dear Fashion School Community,
We invite you to visit the upcoming Exhibition in the Aronson Gallery downtown at 66 5th Avenue:
SOPHIE GIMBEL: FASHIONING AMERICAN COUTURE
The exhibition, curated by Beth Dincuff, opens on Tuesday, January 22nd – February 12th, 2013.
Lecture with Saks’ Helen O’Hagan and Exhibition Curator Beth Dincuff Charleston
February 8, 5:30 pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Free and Open to the Public
Please see release below for full details followed by a link to article in the NY Times by Eric Wilson.
NYTimes: An Unheralded Muse of Midcentury FashionÂ
by Eric Wilson
http://nyti.ms/V5RlZO
She dressed a first lady, but that did not assure the Sophie Gimbel would be remembered as a top American designer. Now some of her clothes are on view in New York…