We welcome Rita Brown to talk about some of the highlights from the Museum's fashion collection.
Rita Brown received her training in Costume History, Costume Design and Cutting, in London England. From 1964 until her retirement in 2007, she worked as Head Cutter of women’s costume, and for ten years as Head of Wardrobe at the Shaw Festival Theatre.
She has also cut principal costumes for other theatre productions including the Canadian Opera Company, The Tarragon Theatre and the Canadian Stage in Toronto, as well as the New York City Opera, The National Theatre in London and the Gorky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
Rita has also assisted in mounting costume exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum, The Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Musee des Arts Decoratif in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Currently she is working on a book, coming out later this year, on the history of the Lady’s riding habit.
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Generously Sponsored by Geoffrey & Lorraine Joyner.