It was a sight that would have made any jewelry lover sigh ““ a dress made entirely of Swarovski crystals, each stone catching the light and sparkling like the stars on a dark night. Colleen Atwood, ...

Did you also think that the costumes in the movies are historically accurate? It turns out that even the most iconic movies have mistakes: sometimes objects that simply could not have existed at the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...

Some costumes happen to do more than just dress a character. It tops up to become symbols. Cultural touchstones. And most ...

Nearly a century ago, the Russian artist Léon Bakst designed more than 300 lavish costumes for “The Sleeping Princess,” a ballet production in London so exorbitant, it left its legendary producer, ...

The first post was fairly drab, a simple shot of the storage space for Drexel University’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, published on Instagram in July of 2013. The next day, it ...

To borrow a phrase from Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that at the end of a long day, there’s nothing better than getting out of your work clothes. Only when Keisha Medrano gets ...

Nicole Kowrach grew up traveling from Michigan to the Chicago area to visit museums. But she only began considering working ...

Drexel President John A. Fry and Cara Fry will host a formal dedication of the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection on Tuesday, June 24 at 11:00 am in Westphal College’s URBN Center (3501 ...

Tamika Burton has dressed up as Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Coleman, and Joe Louis, among other African American trailblazers. Each February, Tamika Burton, a Spanish teacher at Collegium ...

As she does every year, Heidi Klum has once again organised the legendary Heidiween party this Halloween. Anyone attending ...