Recipient
Virginia Olmsted
Graduate Student, Professional & Master's
Project
Pre-Dissertation Exploration Award
Dressing the Comrades: The Houses of Design and the Expansion Soviet Women's Fashion, 1953 -1991,"
Virginia Olmsted will carry out predissertation archival research in Moscow, Russia. Her dissertation will examine the Soviet fashion industry after the death of Joseph Stalin until the end of the Soviet project, particularly focusing on the houses of design, the chief state institutions for fashion design.
Location
Russian Federation