Hours
Weekdays: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Weekends: The first Sunday* of each month from 2:00-4:00 pm (*excludes holiday weekends)
Phone: 225-578-1087
E-mail: textile@lsu.edu
Special Collections
Donation from The Valentine
The LSU Textile and Costume Museum is the grateful recipient of over 400 exceptional artifacts from The Valentine Museum of Richmond, Virginia. This acquisition includes a wide assortment of fashions of the twentieth century from both European and American designers. Included in the vast gift are couture garments by Jeanne Paquin, Christian Dior, and Jeanne Lanvin, among others, as well as examples of lesser-known fashion designers such as Anne Fogarty, Ceil Chapman, Nettie Rosenstein, Stephen Burrows, and Willi Smith.
Three garments from this acquisition were displayed in our most recent exhibition, "Til' Trends Do Us Part: A Retrospective of Changing Fashion in Bridal Wear." These include a homemade wedding gown from 1837, an 1865 gown attributed to the famed couturier Charles Fredrick Worth, and an 1878 bustle-period gown made by New York City dressmaker Mrs. E. Hynes whose shop was located at 90 W. 11th Street, NYC.
Geoffrey Beene Archive
"In the south women are idealized, idolized, put on pedestals. My training...was alwasy that way and it's never changed." -Geoffrey Beene
Acadian Textile Collection
