A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” ...

She parties like it’s 1899. Oregon’s Adelaide Beeman-White is winding back the clock on haute couture by dressing like she ...

"Marie Antoinette Style" at the V&A Museum, will unpack her dress and interiors, exploring how her style has echoed through ...

Jade Luiz, who documents 19th-century sex work, is training students in the basics of excavation and documentation.

In “Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson honors the forgotten fashion innovator.

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

The show will run from Sept. 20 to March 22 and feature 250 objects, including exceptional loans never seen before outside ...

Portrait of an 18th-century It girl. Joshua Reynolds’ beloved painting contains the hidden story of my socialite ancestor, whose life spanned England, France and America. ... It depicts a young woman ...

Lady Hamilton as Ariadne by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790. Public Domain. Lady Hamilton, a woman who became famous in Europe for her astonishing beauty as well as her political influence, also spread ...

The belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, are now on display in Lewis. ... suggesting he took care of his clothing despite a modest background. ...