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Introduction
Stipelman: His Illustrations and the Fashions they Reflect, is a unique 1995-1996
exhibition at the Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio. Some fifty-five paintings
and sketches of Steven Stipelman, one of New York's foremost fashion illustrators,
teachers and authors, and some 65 of the garments he illustrated (always after the
garments were completed) from 1965-1995 make up the exhibition.
The dresses, suits, and coats illustrated are by such famous designers as Balenciaga,
Chanel, Vionnet, Galanos, Trigere, Charles James, Shannon Rodgers, Adrian, Irene,
Madame Gres, Dior, Ungaro. The clothes date from a 1926 Chanel to a 1991-92 Galanos;
the illustrations from 1965-1995.
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