I had a room down the hall that served as my office, but I’d have to constantly go back and forth. We moved to what is now the Fibers Department resource center.
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I was listening to the directors of other collections as to how to build a collection.
I was talking to wealthier friends and art collectors who were fashionable. So, instead of waiting on faculty to donate garments for students, I began asking friends for donations. I thought, how was I going to document them? I took notes I put little notes on each hanger it became quite popular. We started in a closet in the Columbus drive building when the Fashion Department was just one room. We established that we would eventually be a hands-on study collection of garments that would be donated. I talked to the Chair of the Fashion Department at SAIC, who took me to the President and the textile collection at the museum. So, I listened to everyone and I took notes. Don Petrillo taught me how to handle guests: “You’re not a museum, you’re a resource center within a school.” I was taught what to do and what not to do. But it was FIT where I really learned the most. I went to LA, I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), I went to Minneapolis, and I asked how they dealt with guests. I was trying to figure out what we needed for the school community. I went to various museums, not school collections because there weren’t any. By traveling to those different cities for the national and local meetings, I was getting to know and admire a lot of curators. Gillion Carrara: Probably more than 30 years ago, I attended meetings of the Costume Society of America. F News sat down with founder Gillion Carrara and co-director Caroline Bellios to discuss the FRC’s history and impact.į News: What was involved in starting the FRC? As one of the only hands-on fashion archives in the world, the FRC provides SAIC students with a one-of-a-kind research experience. The collection includes over 3,000 published texts, 800 garments, and 800 videos of Ready-to-wear and Couture runway shows. 30 years later, the FRC is one of seven Special Collections shared by SAIC and the Art Institute of Chicago. Adjunct Professor of Art History, Gillion Carrara, founded the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Fashion Resource Center (FRC) in 1987.
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