Dress & Drinks: Drexel University | Conversations on Dress | Costume Society of America

Dress & Drinks: Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection at Drexel University | Conversations on Dress | Costume Society of America In this edition of Dress & Drinks, Leon Wiebers speaks with Clare Sauro, director of the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC). Sauro joined Drexel University in 2008 and has over 20 years of experience working in historic costume and museums. Heralded as a “world-class collection of fashion and textiles” by The Wall Street Journal, the FHCC is a museum-quality collection of more than 20,000 garments, textiles, and related materials. As director of the FHCC, she has mounted several notable exhibitions, including Brave New World: Fashion & Freedom, 1911-1919 (2011), Immortal Beauty: Highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (2015), Philadelphia in Style: A Century of Fashion from the Robert & Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (2016) at the James A. Michener Art Museum, and James Galanos: Design Integrity (2018). Her most recent exhibition is Venus & Diana: Fashioning the Jazz Age. In addition to her role as director of the Fox Historic Costume Collection, Sauro teaches courses in the history of fashion. Her current research includes fashion from 1910 to 1939, Philadelphia retailer Nan Duskin, cellophane textiles, and Hollywood costume designer Bernard Newman. Sauro is a frequent lecturer on the history of fashion and is regularly interviewed and consulted by journalists and scholars on to