“Primary Source (noun): An account or record (such as a first-hand account, a contemporaneous news report, a photograph, or an audio or video recording) reflecting direct experience of a thing (such as a historical event) that is being researched or studied”
A Primary Source for Fashion Research
Our mission at the FASHION CAPITAL PROJECT is to create a primary source for scholars, students, and other researchers seeking firsthand knowledge of a significant period in American fashion history, centered in New York City.
The last quarter of the twentieth century was an expansive age for fashion, and the majority of the fashion editors, designers, retailers, stylists, models, and other of fashion’s cultural intermediaries, are now retiring or retired.
The FCP is in the process of collecting oral histories and written testaments from these critical primary sources and making them available gratis for research, through the Special Collections Library at FIT.
Oral histories of key Fashion Stakeholders collected by Graduate Students and Scholars
ORAL HISTORIES
WRITTEN TESTAMENTS
Written Testaments from Key Fashion Stakeholders.
PROCESS
Led by Scholars and Graduate Students of Fashion Studies Key Fashion Stakeholders will be contacted for Oral Histories and Written Testaments.