This is a short video from a Swiss TV program featuring regional info - sadly it's all in Swiss German, so this will just be "for looking" for most readers here 
: http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/schweiz...assen?id=55c1aeca-0622-4e5b-a79f-21154bd026f6
It's quite exciting though! It's the clothing collection of an industrialist's wife who must have had tons of money, ranging from 1940 to 1980. All made in Switzerland after Paris couture designs, and for each outfit she also had the matching accessories made. The whole collection has been bought by Rosmarie Amacher, Zurich's one and only couturière (I have a suit by her, which I found in a second hand shop - it's amazing and looking at it and the work that went into, it almost hurt paying as little for it as I did - it must have cost a fortune originally). The collection in storage in Rorschach, on Lake Constance, currently being catalogued and photographed. Her plan is to make it accessible to the public - but not just as an exhibition, but to make the collection accessible to fashion students, to give them the possibility to study the garments and see how they are made, using couture techniques. The red ensemble shown in the beginning is a 60s Cardin design, the black sequinned ensemble on the model is YSL from the 70s - the other things shown are not further explained. As an example for couture techniques she shows the skirt of a white lace dress, where the lace has been hand-stitched together along the pattern so that no seam is visible. The fun thing is also, this lady kept a diary of all her outfits, with a small swatch of fabric, date and designer. Amacher talks about the things they keep discovering, which "make us squeal with delight" - I can only imagine, and wish I could be there!!!!
It think this is great and look forward to see what they'll do further. I'm sure I'll visit it if they open some kind of exhibition to the general public too.
Karin
: http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/schweiz...assen?id=55c1aeca-0622-4e5b-a79f-21154bd026f6It's quite exciting though! It's the clothing collection of an industrialist's wife who must have had tons of money, ranging from 1940 to 1980. All made in Switzerland after Paris couture designs, and for each outfit she also had the matching accessories made. The whole collection has been bought by Rosmarie Amacher, Zurich's one and only couturière (I have a suit by her, which I found in a second hand shop - it's amazing and looking at it and the work that went into, it almost hurt paying as little for it as I did - it must have cost a fortune originally). The collection in storage in Rorschach, on Lake Constance, currently being catalogued and photographed. Her plan is to make it accessible to the public - but not just as an exhibition, but to make the collection accessible to fashion students, to give them the possibility to study the garments and see how they are made, using couture techniques. The red ensemble shown in the beginning is a 60s Cardin design, the black sequinned ensemble on the model is YSL from the 70s - the other things shown are not further explained. As an example for couture techniques she shows the skirt of a white lace dress, where the lace has been hand-stitched together along the pattern so that no seam is visible. The fun thing is also, this lady kept a diary of all her outfits, with a small swatch of fabric, date and designer. Amacher talks about the things they keep discovering, which "make us squeal with delight" - I can only imagine, and wish I could be there!!!!
It think this is great and look forward to see what they'll do further. I'm sure I'll visit it if they open some kind of exhibition to the general public too.
Karin
