Gayle Strege, Curator of Historic Costumes and Textiles Collections, Ohio State University will give a public lecture, “Notes on a Collection.” The lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Modernism and Romanticism: An American Design Approach” featuring the fashion designers Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene and Oscar de la Renta, which are currently on exhibition in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on East Campus. A public reception sponsored by the Friends of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will follow the lecture outside the gallery on the second floor of the Home Economics Building.

Image: (left) Geoffrey Beene dress on permanent loan from Marilyn Forke; (top right) Bill Blass jacket donated by Kathryn Ericksen Lohr; (bottom right) Oscar de la Renta dress donated by Marjorie Woods.