Phoenix Art Museum is one of few art institutions in the United States that continually collects, preserves, and exhibits works of fashion. The Museum began collecting fashion in 1966, when Arizona Costume Institute was founded to support the acquisition and preservation of garments and accessories of historical and aesthetic significance. Today, the PhxArt fashion collection houses more than 9,000 objects of women’s, men’s, and children’s dress spanning the 18th century through the present and is home to three special archives, including the Geoffrey Beene Archive, the Emphatics Archive, and the Ann Bonfoey Taylor Archive.
About the exhibition
The Collection: Greatest Fits (Vol. 1): The Art of Archiving Fashion is the first in a three-part series of rotating installations that uncovers the Museum’s impressive fashion collection and Phoenix’s status as an exhibitor of globally iconic fashions.
