Calendar Girl

Calendar Girl is about fashion industry and fashion history legend Ruth Finley. We meet her on the eve of her retirement at 95, as she prepares to hand over her lifelong work on the Fashion Calendar. This is the story of a woman who in the 1940s carved out a place for herself in a man’s world and developed a reputation for tenacity, perseverance, fairness, humanity, diplomacy, and decency. She influenced the inner workings of New York fashion, she celebrated and was celebrated by both the industry’s powerhouses and rising stars, and she survived its many incarnations”

The screening will be followed by a discussion period with writer and producer Nathalie Nudell, and a cocktail reception.

Natalie Nudell

Natalie Nudell is a historian and curator of fashion and textiles, and is a faculty member in the Department of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY in New York City. Her research interests include the wartime and post-war American fashion industry, labour, gender, and digital humanities, and she is the foremost expert on the Fashion Calendar. In addition to writing and producing Calendar Girl, Nudell was the co-curator and exhibition designer of “Runway Moments: New York Fashion Week,” held at the 80WSE Gallery, and is associate editor of the Fashion Studies Journal and a founding member of the Fashion Studies Alliance.

INFORMATION

Free activity, in English, with French subtitles, presented on Thursday, October 6, at 6 p.m.
Duration: 91 minutes
Location: J. Armand Bombardier Theatre at the Museum
Screening followed by a cocktail reception.
Space is limited, reservation required.
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