upcoming exhibition
Golden Glamour: The Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry Collection
March 13 - July 5, 2015
Museum Galleries
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An intimate peek into the wardrobe of an extraordinary woman, Golden Glamour features dazzling gilded garments given to the RISD Museum from the estate of American philanthropist and Rhode Island native Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry (1873-1958).
This luminous installation includes early 1920s-1930s fashions from the premier design houses of Europe-Elsa Schiaparelli, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo of the Fortuny label, the House of Worth, Callot Soeurs, Paul Poiret, and Edward H. Molyneux-all speaking to Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry’s impeccable and cosmopolitan taste for fashions of lamé, silk, and velvet.