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Walter Plunkett, a man responsible for hundreds of celebrated designs in more than 260 films over a forty-year period, is not a household name. Plunkett's career as a self-taught costume designer included one of the most iconic film costumes of all time: Scarlett O'Hara's Curtain Dress. Yet, the question remains why Walter Plunkett has not achieved the same prominence as his peers. Join us as Joanna Abijaoude, Museum Associate at the FIDM Museum, brings Walter Plunkett's legacy out from behind the shadows and illustrates why his work made a lasting and relevant impact in the world of costume design.
PMH's Textile Arts Council is proud to partner with the curatorial staff of the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles to present a three-part lecture series featuring fashions throughout the decades. The other lectures in this series are Dressed in Diamonds: American Princesses & Gilded Age Fashion (January 19) and Gatsby's Women: Fashionable Ideals of the 1920s (February 2).
Interested in textile arts? Consider joining our Textile Arts Council. www.pasadenahistory.org/textile-arts
Tickets include entrance to the Exhibition Galleries starting at 6:00 pm and a wine and cheese reception.
Image: Walter Plunkett sketching a design for Gone With the Wind. Courtesy of the David O. Selznick Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
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LocationPasadena Museum of History (View)
470 West Walnut Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
United States
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