SCAD Fashion Museum, Atlanta
A few weeks ago, Kathrine (from Kathrine Eldridge blog) and I met up when she came to Atlanta to visit her son who is studying here for his Master’s degree. We met earlier in the fall and when I saw an ad for the SCAD Fashion Museum, I thought it would be a fun outing for us since it was near where she was staying. SCAD stands for the Savannah College of Art and Design and they have a campus in downtown Atlanta. The museum is located at the top of the building and the admission fee was $10 with free parking (which is a definite plus in downtown Atlanta!).

The ad I had seen and the description talked about movie fashion, however the exhibit at the time of our visit was the Christian Dior exhibit which turned out to be really interesting and beautiful. The museum is located at the top of the building and parking deck, and has pretty views of Atlanta and a green area which was very tastefully done (this is turf, not grass).
The first part of the museum showed the different stages of how a dress comes to life from drawing, mock-ups and choices of fabrics. It is amazing how creative some of the designs were while not being too out there. Most of the dresses seemed to be very wearable and Kathrine and I drooled over several of these.
Below, the video shows my favorite display of dresses! I also took of video of a beautiful collection of purses which I will share at the bottom of this post.
Other favorites were the dresses below. So many beautiful fabrics, sequins and different silhouettes!
The collection of dresses from the picture on the right were all worn by different actresses at different fashionable events. It was fun to read who wore what: the center dress in that picture was worn by Natalie Portman.
I actually really enjoyed this last display from the students at SCAD: each of these designs had a bee related element. Below it a close up of with the hexagonal shape of a bee honeycomb.

Below is half of the collection of the bags that were on display! I am not a much of a designer bag person, but there were a couple of these that caught my eye.
I hope you enjoyed this virtual visit of the SCAD Fashion museum. I will be sharing some pictures of Kathrine and I in an upcoming post which will recap some of the fun moments in May.
A bientôt!
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16 Comments
Joanne
Oh that sounds so fun! I nearly went into fashion design when I was looking at colleges and eeven sat through a few fun student fashion shows. A museum exhibit all about fashion is right up my alley.
mimifce
I didn’t know that about you!
jodie
What a fabulous place to visit, and those creative designers are incredible, right?
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Jodie
mimifce
It’s pretty amazing.
Marsha Banks
WOW!!!! What an amazing exhibit! Is it always there, or is it a temporary one? I’ll bet it was interesting to watch the whole design process. I’m not into designer bags, either, but if Chanel wanted to gift me one, I wouldn’t turn it down…hahaha!!!
mimifce
I think they change exhibits a couple times a year. I will be checking out what they have in the fall.
Jill James
I always enjoy a fashion exhibition , this one looks wonderful . The gowns truly are beautiful . It must have been fun sharing it with a visiting blogger.
mimifce
It really was fun!
Jennifer
This is such an amazing exhibit! I actually recognize some items from when the Christian Dior exhibit was in Toronto.
Jennifer
https://curatedbyjennifer.com
mimifce
That’s really cool!
nicole orriens
Oh, I just love the dresses in the video! They are so lovely.
mimifce
I love how the clothes really seemed wearable!
Cat
Although I’m not into fashion for myself, I have enjoyed more than one fashion exhibition. This one looks like fun!
mimifce
They are like art, so I can see how it would appeal to your creativity!
Kathrine Eldridge
So glad we were able to see this together. Thank you for suggesting it!
https://www.kathrineeldridge.com
mimifce
And to think I had never been there in the 20+ years living nearby!