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MAGAZINE JUNE-DECEMBER 2016

THE FASHION ISSUE

PAGE 18 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ART OF PAIRS UP WITH THE SCIENCE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY?

A GROWING GRASSROOTS GARMENT INDUSTRY DESIGNERS BUILDING , BUILDING BUILDINGS TELLING STORIES FROM A FAMILY’S Gain perspective. Get inspired. Make history. THE HENRY FORD MAGAZINE - JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 | FASHION AND TECHNOLOGY | GRASSROOTS GARMENTS | ARCHITECTURE’S INFLUENCE ON FASHION | INSIDE THE HENRY FORD

MAGAZINE JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 THE FASHION ISSUE

PAGE 18 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ART OF DRESS PAIRS UP WITH THE SCIENCE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY?

A GROWING GRASSROOTS GARMENT INDUSTRY DESIGNERS BUILDING DRESSES, BUILDING BUILDINGS TELLING STORIES FROM A

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Macys-HenryFordMuseum.indd 1 3/3/16 2:04 PM 2 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 3 MAGAZINE JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 18 Letter from the President 6 A PERFECT FIT Ask + Answer 7 Fashion’s elite are finding A Word or Two 8 creative ways to apply Social Snippets 9 science, technology, Off the Shelf 10 engineering and math A Look Back 80 to 28 HOMEGROWN INNOVATION WEARABLES NATION 13 Designers disillusioned with look to create a grassroots INSIDE garment industry one city and one handmade THE at a time HENRY 36 FORD WHEN FASHION Henry Ford 46 MIRRORS Greenfield Village 48 ARCHITECTURE Ford Rouge Factory Tour 50 More often than not, Giant Screen Experience 52 these two disciplines and Acquisitions + Collections 54 the artists that practice 2016 Events 56 them go hand in hand Connect 3 60 STAY, EXPLORE + SAVOR 61

ON THE COVER The of fashion and technology are colliding and pushing boundaries, inspiring pieces such as the Adrenaline Dress. This new take on the little dress can react to a body’s adrenaline and stress levels, opening up its carbon-fiber skeleton similar to how a threatened porcupine would display its quills. The garment takes cues from biomimicry, a scientific approach that looks to nature to solve human problems. PHOTO BY FRANCIS BITONTI STUDIO INC.

2 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 3 OUR MISSION Who We Are and What We Do

TO MAKE A DONATION Jeff Dunlap, 313.982.6167 Gain perspective. [email protected] thehenryford.org/support TO MAKE A LEGACY GIFT Spence Medford, Get inspired. 313.982.6016 [email protected] thehenryfordlegacy.org Chairman of the Board ADVERTISING INFORMATION Make history. S. Evan Weiner Cyndi Schutter, 313.982.6158 [email protected] Vice Chairman THE HENRY FORD: A NATIONAL TREASURE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE Gerard M. Anderson MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION The Henry Ford Call Center The Henry Ford in Dearborn, , is an internationally recognized cultural Vice Chairman 313.982.6001 destination that brings the past forward by immersing visitors in the stories of GENERAL INQUIRIES AND ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that helped shape America. President and Secretary GROUP RESERVATIONS A national historic landmark with an unparalleled collection of artifacts Patricia E. Mooradian The Henry Ford Call Center from 300 years of American history, The Henry Ford is a force for sparking 313.982.6001 Treasurer curiosity and inspiring tomorrow’s innovators. More than 1.6 million visitors Lisa A. Payne RESEARCH INQUIRIES annually experience its four venues: Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, 313.982.6020 Ford Rouge Factory Tour and the Benson Ford Research Center. A continually Board of Trustees research.center@thehenry Lynn Ford Alandt expanding array of content available online provides anytime, anywhere access ford.org Paul R. Dimond ™ to The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation. The Henry Ford is also home B. Ford II SUBSCRIPTION to , a public charter high school that educates 485 students Henry Ford III INFORMATION a year on the institution’s campus. William Clay Ford, Jr. The Henry Ford Call Center In 2014, The Henry Ford premiered its first-ever national television series, George F. Francis III 313.982.6001 or visit The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, showcasing present-day change makers Ralph J. Gerson thehenryford.org/contactus Christopher F. Hamp and The Henry Ford’s artifacts and unique guest experiences. Hosted by news Subscription to this Steven K. Hamp correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, this weekly half-hour show won an magazine is just one of John W. Ingle III the many benefits of being Emmy® Award its first year on the air. It airs Saturday mornings on CBS. Elizabeth Ford Kontulis a member. Magazine-only For more information, please visit thehenryford.org. Richard A. Manoogian Mark L. Reuss subscriptions not available. Hau Thai-Tang Alessandro F. Uzielli DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND Amb. Ronald N. Weiser EDITORIAL SERVICES

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4 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES

WHAT ARTICLE OF DOMINATES YOUR WARDROBE AND WHY? Our contributors tell us.

T.M. DETWILER LIZ GROSSMAN BETH HOECKEL ALLEN SALKIN LAUREN SHERMAN I have always been most I live in where and T-. A multipocketed black I bought a boiled wool comfortable in a pair of it’s pretty frigid for at I have a million cotton shirt made midi from the Row weathered jeans and a least half the year. For T-shirts ranging from by Robert James in about a year and a half T-shirt. And to dress this reason, I’ve amassed very plain pocket tees to New York. Reporters ago. I wear it two or three things up, a variety of quite the collection of obscure band shirts I’ve need good pockets times a week during the . My wardrobe is cozy knits — from cool, collected over the years. and garments that go winter and even try to very consistent, and as chunky to And I wear Madewell easily from street to pull it off in the summer a result, I pretty much cashmere cardigans jeans almost every day fancy affairs. Back when if I’m in a place where dress the same every day. and wool-blend jackets. in either black or dark I started in journalism, the nights turn cool. Pretty much anything blue. I mostly wear I needed maybe three I wear it often because T.M. Detwiler is an to layer up and get us high-waisted skinny pockets for a notebook, it’s a beautiful, versatile illustrator living in New through the winter. ones but also have two a recorder and a pager. piece. But I also paid an York City. He is a regular pairs of . Photos were taken by a unreasonable amount contributor for ESPN, Liz Grossman has been separate person. Now of money for it, so the Time, GQ, Rolling Stone a Chicago-based writer Beth Hoeckel is a I’m a one-man band, only thing saving me and creative agencies and editor for 16 years. freelance artist and carrying a recorder, is considering the cost the world over. His wife She’s the managing illustrator from Balti- cellphone, a Canon G-12 per wear. is from suburban , editor of Plate magazine, more, Maryland. She camera, business cards, and they love visiting an award-winning earned a bachelor of Lauren Sherman has headphones, chargers Michigan (more so in the national trade publica- fine arts degree from covered the fashion and, still, pen and paper. summer than the winter). tion for professional the School of the Art business for many My black Robert James You can follow him on chefs. She’s also the co- Institute of Chicago, publications, including cotton thing looks sharp Instagram @tm_detwiler. founder of the nonprofit, where she studied Forbes, The Wall Street with a tie at a three-star food-themed live literary painting, photography, Journal, Marie Claire Ask + Answer, Page 7 restaurant or a T-shirt series Between Bites and and printmaking, but and the Business of at a protest, has easy- recently read from her she is best known for Fashion. She lives in access pockets and looks middle school diary for her collage and mixed- Brooklyn with her like the kind of rugged the Mortified Chicago media pieces. Beth’s husband and dog. but ready gear a journal- reading series. Her free- work has appeared on ist should be wearing. When Fashion Mirrors lance work has appeared many album and book Architecture, Page 36 in Newsweek, Veranda, covers, in contemporary Allen Salkin is a world- Chicago, Indianapolis art books, as well as in renowned trend writer, Monthly and others. several editorial publica- author, filmmaker and Follow her foodie adven- tions including Wired, journalist. tures on Instagram Paper, Cosmopolitan, The Homegrown Wearables, @elizabites_chi. Atlantic and many more. Page 28 A Perfect Fit, Page 18 When Fashion Mirrors Architecture, Page 36

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PB JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 5 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Casual Thoughts and Serious Correspondence

Since The Henry Ford was founded in 1929, we have been carefully documenting our collections, continually looking for more intuitive ways to make our artifacts and the stories they tell of American innovation more accessible. Accessibility. It’s a concept that everyone at The Henry Ford is mindful of, and yet, I think we have learned to appreciate it more in recent years as the scale and breadth of how we gather and digest information about people, places and things continues to explode. We’ve been ramping up the digitization of our collections in order to make tens of thousands of artifacts that are part of The Henry Ford Archive of Ameri- can Innovation more accessible. This winter, we also launched our redesigned website, which better connects you to the artifacts in our Digital Collections as well as everything happening at The Henry Ford. So far, we have received a great deal of positive feedback about the site’s functionality and want everyone to enjoy what it has to offer. We welcome you to test out the improved sort-and-filter search engine, discover the expert artifact sets compiled by our curators and staff, flip through artifact cards and share them with friends via social media, purchase high-resolution images and much more — all meant to further personalize and customize your experience with The Henry Ford and give you unprecedented access to our Archive of American Innovation. Our new website and ever-growing Digital Collections are actually part of an entire ecosystem we are building, intent on giving better access to our collec- tions, our stories, our mission, our institution. As part of this platform, we are also creating a more robust e-commerce system, which will launch in the near future. Plus, we recently partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to expose new audiences to The Henry Ford and share our artifacts in new ways. This initiative features more than 1,000 cultural heritage institutions worldwide and more than 6 million artifacts. Our presence includes information and images for hundreds of our artifacts — cross-searchable with other institutions’ items that live within the Google Cultural Institute — as well as the exhibits that highlight the stories behind them. As you read this issue of The Henry Ford Magazine, which is focused on fashion in honor of our upcoming exhibit American Style and Spirit: 130 Years of and Lives of an Entrepreneurial Family, I hope you become not only more familiar with impressive clothing collections from centuries past but the artistry behind providing such unparalleled access to them.

PATRICIA E. MOORADIAN, PRESIDENT

DID YOU KNOW? / READ American Style and Spirit: Fashions and Lives The Henry Ford’s historical of the Roddis Family, 1850-1995, written by clothing collection consists Jane Bradbury and Edward Maeder, to be of more than 2,700 garments published by the Victoria and Albert Museum for men, women and children, in Octoberc from everyday clothing to custom-made couture and ranging in date from 1750 to the present day.

6 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 Questions and Replies About Today’s Trends, Talk ASK + ANSWER

T.M. DETWILER ASK: Are we what we wear?

ANSWER: People use clothing in many ways. Others, dressed daily in jeans and a T-shirt, seem JEANINE HEAD At its most practical, clothing keeps us warm to prefer practicality. MILLER is curator or cool. Clothing can also be a form of artistic Clothing can reflect the authentic person or of domestic life at expression — we are the canvas, and our clothing be a façade that masks our inner self. The Henry Ford. choices become the art. First impressions can be lasting — and percep- Some people dress to project a particular self- tion can easily become reality. Clothing does tell image — to support their chosen identity as hip, us something about a person, then. But people are rebellious, sporty or as wealthy and successful. more complex. Clothing does not reveal the whole Or clothing may suggest our ethnicity. We wear person, including their life experiences, personal masquerade to assume a new, though values or character. temporary, identity. tell others that we So are we what we wear? Not necessarily. are a soldier, a fast-food worker or an airline pilot. Does clothing tell something about us? Absolutely. People with outfits that look carefully chosen But not the whole story. let us know that clothing is important to them.

We are the canvas, and our clothing choices become the art.

PB JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 7 A WORD OR TWO Defining People, Places, Pastimes

Label Goo (LEY-BUH-L) N. (GOO) N. Discard the notion of What usually would name-calling, assign- elicit images of the ing titles to the bullies slimy, nasty and viscous and bigots, sinners and in nature is actually the saints. We’re talking inspiration for rings and about when the tag other shiny things of the sells the clothes as finest fashion. much as the fit. PAGE 51 PAGE 54

Fad Geometry (FAD) N. (JEE-OM-I-TREE) N. Beware when it’s all the Circles, angles and the rage, the must-have isosceles. What happens talked about in every when good design, math social circle. Some- and technology square times the craze might off in a fashion factory? last for days, weeks or PAGE 20 even years, but most often it goes out as fast as it came in. PAGE 80 Hobby (HOB-EE) N. Sometimes the greatest of pleasures done just Cobbler (KOB-LER) N. FASHION THAT STICKS for fun morph into more. When it comes to what we wear or don’t, much is left to personal preference. There’s a pattern to how Not the crispy, crumbly A lot of it, however, is dictated or influenced by what magazines, society, homespun clothiers are fruit-filled dessert, but celebrities and houses of fashion tell us is in style at the time. How else would altering how what we the master of design leg warmers saturate the streets in the early ’80s if it wasn’t for popular films wear is made today. with great taste about like Fame and Flashdance? Good or bad, a passing fad or a forever wardrobe staple, here are some fashion finds from a mix of centuries, decades and, in PAGE 32 what should go on some cases, just a fleeting season or two that will make you think. your foot. Ruff collar (search Queen Elizabeth I or ) • • frame PAGE 24 • • Bonnet • Pillbox hat • • • Stilettos stacked with a 10-inch heel • The — thank you, • The basic white T • Zoot • The disco suit of Saturday Night Fever fame • Leisure suit • • (worn with just the right amount of attitude by Twiggy in the ’60s) • Daisy Dukes • Blue jeans (the oldest preserved pair dates to 1879 and sits in a vault at Levi Strauss & Co.) • • Skintight

LABEL, HAT AND SNEAKERS FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™; GEOMETRY BY ©ISTOCK.COM/MA_RISH

8 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 Online Chatter and Curatorial Matters SOCIAL SNIPPETS A Look Into Our Digital Closet

When our fans chat with us across our social media platforms to see if we have a specific artifact within The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation™, chances are pretty good we have what they’re looking for. To test that theory, we asked Brian Wilson (@BrilWil), digital access and preservation archivist, and Ellice Engdahl (@ErisuEEE), digital collections and content manager, to pick some of their favorite clothing-related artifacts to share with our Twitter followers. It didn’t take them long to generate a long list. Here’s a few of their favorites in 140 characters or less.

Fashionable Mr. Ford Dress It Down, @ErisuEEE: Dress It Up #Fashion from a miracle @Brilwil: plant: Henry Ford in his jacket. Bell bottoms. #soybean suit, 1941 High school reunion @codequette: here I come! @ErisuEEE @ErisuEEE: Dress @thehenryford down, like @brilwil, or Does the museum wow the crowd .... More have any clothing of evening options Mr. Ford’s? from @thehenryford @ErisuEEE: Why, yes, @thehenryford does have some of Henry Ford’s clothing, like Keeping All Those this suit! Clothes Clean @Brilwil: Clothespins... for hanging your “dain- ties” + your “heavies” @NixoNARA: @Brilwil Hah! I remember my Clothes on the Go Mom hanging family @Brilwil: Getting ready outside on the to head home for the line to dry! weekend #TGIF @Brilwil: @NixoNARA My parents’ house had dedicated clothesline poles in the backyard. Several of the neighbors’ as well. @CyclinArchivist: @brilwil @NixoNARA my landlady at my last WE’RE HERE apartment still hangs To see some of your favorite pieces of clothing from her laundry outside. yesterday and today, visit TheHenryFord.org to search our Digital Collections. Have a fashion artifact challenge for us? Ask us at @thehenryford.

FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

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PB JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 9 OFF THE SHELF Recommended Films, Fine Reads and Dot-coms

The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski

JEANINE HEAD MILLER, THE HENRY FORD’S CURATOR OF DOMESTIC LIFE, WRITES ON THE ENTERTAINING OBSERVATIONS AND INSIGHTS SHARED BY HISTORIAN, DRESS- MAKER AND AUTHOR LINDA PRZYBYSZEWSKI ON PERSONAL FASHION AND WHY IT MATTERS.

Have we lost the art of dressing well? Linda Przybyszewski thinks so — and she takes us on a fascinating journey through the 20th century to show us how it happened. Into the 1950s, women writers known as the “Dress Doctors” taught American women the art of dressing with creativity and taste — based on timeless principles of good design. Under the guidance of these now-forgotten experts, women and girls learned to recognize quality in design and materials, choose flattering colors and create a beautiful, versatile wardrobe on a budget. Some women even parlayed these skills into careers as , designers or department-store buyers. In the 1960s and 1970s — with the rise of the rebel baby boomers and the demise of home economics departments that once taught these design principles — the sage advice of these experts faded away. Today, according to Przybyszewski, the Dress Doctors would be aghast at much of what we wear — impractical micro-, pajama bottoms in public and sack-like dresses. Fashion trends are not always about good design and quality materials. After reading this book — and enjoying the author’s delightfully humorous observations along the way — you will never again look at fashion choices in quite the same way. I know I won’t.

Fashion trends are not always about good design and quality materials. After reading this book ... you will never again look at fashion choices in quite the same way. — Jeanine Head Miller, curator

10 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 11 ALL KINDS OF What are FASHION FINDS If you’re craving more about the art and history of how we reading + we dress, the Benson Ford Research Center has a collection of books, papers and watching? other two- and three- dimensional items well-suited to your needs. For help, write to: research.center@ thehenryford.org.

BOOKS Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette by Denis Bruna, editor Men’s Fashion in the Twentieth Century: From Frock to Intelligent Fibres by Maria Costantino Fashion Victims: The Tracy Donohue Dangers of Dress Past General Manager and Present by Alison The Clothing Studio Kristen Lish Dorset Matthews David The Henry Ford Social Media Manager Elegance in an Age Gallerneaux The Henry Ford of Crisis: Fashions of Curator of the 1930s by Patricia Tim Gunn’s Fashion Communications Mears and G. Bruce Bible: The Fascinating and Information P.S. - I Made This Boyer, editors Technology History of Everything in psimadethis.com Sixties Fashion: The Henry Ford Your Closet Instagram: From Less Is More @psimadethis to by by Tim Gunn with Ada Jonathan Walford Calhoun Blank City When it comes to DIY Fran Faile directed by Celine Danhier fashion, look no further In my role at The Henry Conservator PERIODICALS than P.S. I Made This. Ford, I’ve read and refer- In the late 1970s and The Henry Ford Demorest’s Founded by Erica Monthly Magazine enced many historical 1980s, Domesek, who has been (1866-1889) fashion books, but admit- was running on empty; Cocaine Blues called “Fashion’s Queen The Lady’s Book and tedly, most are known for its artists and musicians of DIY,” her website and Godey’s Lady’s Book their informational rather were inspired by ruin, by Kerry Greenwood massive social media (1830-1892) than entertainment value. alienation and punk For fun, derring-do and following are proof to the Peterson’s Magazine One book that is both music. In the motley fabulous fashion, get title. Domesek (1848-1892) educational and fun cultural movement acquainted with Phryne for the latest fashion to read is Tim Gunn’s known as No Wave, Fisher, the creation of ARCHIVAL trends to turn into easy- Fashion Bible, written guerilla filmmakers author Kerry Green- COLLECTIONS to-make DIY projects by the impeccable and played their part by wood. She’s the star Firestone Family for her readers, often knowledgeable Tim Gunn creating raw, provoca- of 20 mystery novels Papers, 1804-1991 offering up a new project from Project Runway. tive Super 8 films on set in Australia in the The Elizabeth by way of a quirky Parke Firestone Gunn provides interesting no budget. In No Wave late 1920s. In the first infographic. Her quick, Couture series, historical facts and social cinema, the script was volume, Cocaine Blues, inexpensive projects 1921-1991, includes context to all of the items flipped: musicians Phryne escapes English photographs, make obtaining street- found in today’s closets, made films, artists society and settles in correspondence, style fashion possible for sprinkled with insight- made music. Melbourne, where she sketches with fabric anyone willing to wield swatches from ful insider stories and a Familiar faces embarks on a life of a glue gun. Follow her designer houses sassy, yet positive, and cult icons alike — danger and glamour on Instagram to stay such as . that only he can provide. Jim Jarmusch, Steve while always impeccably up to date on her latest Paper Doll Collection This entertaining book is Buscemi, Debbie Harry, dressed. There’s also fashion-related travels. 1850-2008 for anyone from fashioni- Fab 5 Freddy — narrate an Australian TV series, On the Avenue paper sta to novice interested Blank City, capturing Miss Fisher’s Murder doll set, circa 1933 in the fascinating history the cinematic nature Mysteries, where her Hollywood Fashion of fashion and building a of everyday life in NYC. wardrobe really shines. Dolls, 1939 better personal wardrobe. The documentary is a moving archive rife with fashion cues and inspiring make-do attitudes that continue to inspire today.

10 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 11 Explore our new website, and prepare to be astounded.

Our digital footprint has been completely reimagined and transformed. It gives unparalleled access to content, collections and everything happening at The Henry Ford.

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INNOVATION NATION A weekly TV show that airs Saturday mornings on CBS presents inspiring stories that showcase present-day change makers and the possibilities for future progress. Each episode of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation shares dramatic accounts of the world’s greatest inventions — and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring them to life.

The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation received three Daytime Emmy® nominations in 2016: Outstanding Special Class Series, Outstanding

Writing Special Class and Outstanding The Electroloom 14 Sound Mixing-Live Action. Ideas in Action 16

thehenryford.org 13 INNOVATION NATION

SEASON 2 EPISODE 10

THE WILD HOW IT WORKS The electrospinning process, dubbed field-guided fabrication, makes it possible for anyone with WEB WE a small bit of CAD ability to design and create seamless fabric items on demand. 1 CAN WEAR First, design a mold. Forgo the needle and thread — all you need It can be almost any shape you can imagine, to make clothes from scratch is a computer designed digitally and an idea in CAD or Illustrator and made of just about In fashion, “printed” usually refers to placing it in the Electroloom machine any material. patterned fabric. But when it comes and watching as 3-D printer nozzles to one company, it actually describes layer microscopic fibers up around the way clothing is made. it. Still in its infancy, the technology Bay Area-based startup Electroloom has so far been used to make simple is using 3-D printing to create garments such as beanies, tank tops seamless garments that are soft as and . 2 butter. Its innovative electrospinning After the Electroloom appeared on process ultimately makes it possible Innovation Nation ​earlier this year, The Once the mold is for anyone with some CAD ability Henry Ford Magazine caught up with made, it can be to design and produce fabric items co-founder and CEO Aaron Rowley to placed inside the on demand. Dubbed field-guided talk more about the technology and Electroloom Alpha fabrication, it entails making a mold, the possibilities yet to unfold. chamber, and the job can be started. The liquid solution is guided onto the mold by an electric field, evenly coating and binding the nano-fibers together into a cohesive, seamless fabric. 3 Once removed from the mold, the unique material can flex, drape and fold, just like the fabrics you know and love.

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14 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 THF Magazine the kitchen floor. Then, a machine — that liquid for projects pursuing on something soon How did the idea we began to work out converts into a fiber as it advanced technology and making some cool for Electroloom of a technology shop dries. The final product is and nanotechnology. announcements. come about? and maker’s space, a completely seamless. We are exploring some community of people private investments, too. THF Magazine Rowley I’ve been that supports a facility THF Magazine The goal is to expand Do you really see working in the technol- that has equipment, So what does the the team to refine the people using ogy industry, as have classes and training. fabric feel like? technology and, later Electroloom to my co-founders, and we We also participated in this year or early next make clothing in saw an obvious lacking Rowley The fibers that their own homes? in terms of 3-D-printing accelerated programs, we work with are actually year, have an actual set which catapulted us to of machines “out in the capability — it couldn’t single fibers, really tiny Rowley I try to dis- the next level. While the wild” as well as our own make soft goods and micro- or even nano- cern between near-term origins of this project clothing brand. material things like scale fibers. They’re realistic stuff and what’s were truly conceptual, clothing, towels, very, very small, which our bigger vision. Having when we were success- THF Magazine — anything that’s soft makes the material very people make things in How do you see and flexible. We wanted fully getting fabrics and soft. The fabric has been their homes is far off, this technology to expand 3-D printing soft material, that’s what described as a hybrid but the goal is to, over being applied? to produce those items. propelled us into building between cotton and the years, refine this We knew that it would these larger, more robust suede. The texture on the Rowley We’ve been technology so if some- be extremely valuable, machines. surface is soft like suede, approached by sev- body did want to have so we set out on this but it’s got the look and eral clothing brands this in their home to THF Magazine hypothetical task. We dimensions of cotton interested in working print fibrous products — How does the just started prototyp- and polyester with com- with the technology from kitchen towels to Electroloom work? ing and designing, and parable thickness. and product design and underwear — that’s where the original Rowley The simplest teams who want to to supplement actually THF Magazine genesis came from. way to describe it is that work with this method. going out and purchas- What’s next for the we convert liquids into A few stores are even ing these items in THF Magazine Electroloom? . Basically, we use interested in having stores, we would love How has your electricity to pull on the Rowley We are in the tools in-store to for that to happen and company evolved? liquid, and the liquid, as the middle of fundrais- engage with custom- for people to be able Rowley When we first it’s being pulled on, then ing right now. We also ers. We’re flushing this to add customization, started working, we were hardens into a fiber and received a grant from out to determine what’s colors and shapes. in a garage and in our as you pull that across a the National Science most doable in the near apartments working on gap — let’s say inside of Foundation specifically future. We’ll be settling

A FOOD A BIONIC EAR musicians the ultimate Other The Strati is the world’s From peas to Princeton University ability to customize their 3-D-Printed first 3-D-printed car, pancakes and pizza to researchers constructed sound. manufactured by Local burgers, culinary labs the ear by printing a Things Motors in Arizona. and household kitchens polymer gel onto an BONES You can pretty much are experimenting with approximate ear shape. Researchers at the 3-D-print anything you A PROSTHETIC 3-D-printed eats. Fused nanoparticles can think of with a little Easton LaChappelle, create an antenna. 3-D Lab printed accurate know-how and CAD a 17-year-old from Colo- replicas of mastodon creativity. Here’s a short rado, 3-D-printed a fully A GUITAR bones, offering a new list of items seemingly functioning prosthetic Innovations way of learning by created, like Electroloom arm and hand using free 3-D-printed an acoustic possibly replacing less clothing, out of thin air. online resources. guitar, claiming it saved precise models. exotic woods and gave

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18 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 Fashion designer Julia Körner mashed together her passion for nature, architecture, high tech and fashion while creating her fall 2015 collection. Her Kelp Jacket, A VEHICLE FOR inspired by the seaweed’s structure STORYTELLING and created with Stratasys 3-D- The recent subject of an printing technology, explores extensive conservation/ new possibilities in ready-to- restoration effort, The wear couture.c Henry Ford’s 1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV still wears the telltale marks of what it takes to win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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I’ll never forget slipping on my mother’s 1970s-era mood ring. It was the mid- ’80s, and the silver band swung loosely around my index finger.

I would stare at the black stone, waiting Van Herpen, who studied under for it to morph into a lush forest green Alexander McQueen and started her or, if I was lucky (or happy, apparently), own label in 2007, achieves many of amber. Sometimes it changed and her looks through 3-D printing, laser sometimes it didn’t, but the idea of sintering and other digital technology jewelry reading feelings seemed like through collaborations with archi- the future. tects, artists (from Beyoncé to Lady A decade later, Hypercolor T- Gaga), scientists and designers. shirts had middle schoolers patting She continues to create boundary- each other on the back to see their pushing pieces, often written about handprints transform from neon pink and on display at exhibits like Manus to green. But the heat-sensitive tech- x Machina: Fashion in an Age of nology of Hypercolor clothing could Technology, The Institute’s be ruined with a single hot-water current exhibition at The Met, running wash. These glimpses of the future of through August 14. fashion were fun but fleeting. Today, Among many of van Herpen’s the melding of fashion and technology collaborations, her work with Austrian has morphed into so much more than architect, designer and UCLA lecturer neon, as everything from haute cou- Julia Körner has resulted in some ture to small- and large-scale shoe of her most stunning work to date. companies are collaborating with (See Page 36 for more connections scientists, computational designers, between fashion and architecture.) biologists, architects and even the Their first collaboration was revealed consumer directly, ever-challenging at Haute Couture Week in 2012. DID YOU KNOW? / the ideas of how we wear, buy and It was a breathtaking dress called The first major exhibition even discard designs. The results are Hybrid Holism that looks intricately of Iris van Herpen’s work, titled Iris van custom creations that blur the lines carved out of petrified honey. To Herpen: Transforming between fashion and art; introduce make it, they used stereolithography, Fashion, opened at the textures, textiles, fit and forms that which Körner describes as one of the High Museum of Art didn’t exist before; and combine craft- biggest 3-D prints you can make. in Atlanta in 2015 and featured 45 of her most making with technology — from 3-D The piece was printed in two parts, groundbreaking outfits. printing to laser sintering. front and back, and took a week to print. “It’s a process where there’s DID YOU KNOW? / WAY OUTSIDE THE BOX liquid resin struck by a laser, which Australian designer Donna There’s something about the work of builds up the geometry layer by layer,” Sgro created a dress made award-winning haute couture Dutch explained Körner. For another look, they from Morphotex, a fabric that imitates the micro- designer Iris van Herpen that organi- experimented with flexible plastic and scopic structure of the cally blends science and nature. Her created the intricate black lace-like Morpho butterfly’s wing. plastic-based 3-D designs resemble Voltage dress, shown at Paris Fashion flowing water, clusters of twisted Week in 2013. DID YOU KNOW? / branches, water splashes frozen “In each of our collaborations, we Dutch fashion designer in time or the glass-like beauty of used different technologies to research Marieka Ratsma and Bubble -esque circles — all American architect the material and its behavior within the Kostika Spaho created a fitting beautifully to the human form. garment,” said Körner, who enlisted 3-D-printed shoe inspired The timeless silhouettes of her cloth- Belgian company Materialise for the by a bird’s skull. ing and shoes flaunt twists, curves printing and laser sintering, “which and cutouts that look like futuristic is different from stereolithography,” glimpses into the fashionista closets she said. “It’s when you have a box of of the next millennium. powder and a laser binds it in layers,c BOY KORTEKAAS

20 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 MEETING OF MIGHTY MINDS Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen and Austrian architect and designer Julia Körner have conspired and experimented with stereolithography, laser sintering, flexible plastics, geometry and biomimicry to “print” jaw-dropping pieces with Materialise/ Belgium for the fashion world’s most prestigious runways, including the Hybrid Holism (below) and Voltage (at left) dresses.

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HIGH-TECH HEAD TO TOE Wearable technology as an industry is really still in its infancy. Even so, it’s not too difficult to imagine yourself dressed in tech top to bottom.

THE The Mirror Handbag has laser-etched acrylic mirror sides that let light from white LEDs shine through, creating amazing animations. cutecircuit.com

THE DRESS Constructed of holographic leather and sound- reactive animated electroluminescent panels, the Thunderstorm Dress becomes illuminated with lightning bolts as sound volume increases. rainbowwinters.com

THE SHOE E-ink technology and an electronic paper display give the Volvorii high-heeled pump the ability to change hues from black to white and back again. indiegogo.com/projects/volvorii-timeless

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and you end up having a powder- based structure.” Their third collaboration resulted in another 3-D-printed dress, revealed as the jaw-dropping finale in van Herpen’s Biopiracy collection at the Paris Ready-to-Wear in 2014. The dress was printed using laser sintering and was coated after the printing process with silicon to add a glossy sheen to what looks like an explosion of feathers that flow with the body. Van Herpen, whose designs is seen most impressively in Körner’s sometimes start with a sketch that is own ready-to-wear line of 3-D-printed turned into a 3-D-printing file, often clothing and accessories based on finishes her partially printed pieces scans of things found in nature, from by hand, so that “the randomness kelp to mushrooms. “I developed an and irregularities that are created by algorithm computationally to a 3-D hand dominate the computational structure to understand its geometry systems, which is more interesting,” and developed a structure which simu- she explained in a 2014 interview with lates the intricacy of these patterns,” The Business of Fashion magazine. explained Körner of the pieces she had “When the computer defines the printed at U.S.-based Stratasys. “The design language, it can be too perfect Kelp Jacket can be harder where it or too anonymous.” needs to be and more structured and softer where it needs movement,” she NATURE AS INSPIRATION said. Although made of plastic, the While costs are high and materials elegant shape and folds of the gradient are still somewhat limited for high- white-to-black jacket look hand-sewn end 3-D-printed clothing (you can’t and made-to-measure on the body. print cotton or nylon yet), van Herpen “With any other garment-making and Körner have been successful in technique, you cannot really do manipulating plastic-based materials anything like this,” said Körner. “You to move organically with the body. This would need to use casting techniques or similar processes with a thread and needle. You couldn’t generate these lace-like structures. So what’s exciting about designing with the computer is you can come up with totally new 3-D structures and a new aesthetic to gar- ment design,” she said.

MIXING OLD WITH NEW Another designer who’s been obsessed with 3-D printers since he worked with them in architecture school is Francis Bitonti, whose eponymous New York City design studio is known for collaborating on stunning pieces such as the entirely 3-D-printed, 17-piece dress created with designer Michael Schmidt and Shapeways for burlesque star and Dita Von Teese in DID YOU KNOW? / 2013. His company collaborates with Francis Bitonti’s Molecule Shoes startups, fashion designers, acces- are completely manufactured in sory makers and Fortune 500s to print a digital environment, one pixel one-off and small-production runs at a time, using Adobe digital design software and Stratasys of everything from belts to furniture. 3-D-printing technology. Bitonti heads up the computational design aspect, often collaborating with material scientists, engineers, computer programmers and fashion WATCH The segment on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation about Aamir Patel’s designers to bring the often one-of-a- stain-resistant nano Silic shirt kind pieces to life.c thehenryford.org/explore/innovation- nation/episodes/nano-clothesc ALL PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE COURTESY OF FRANCIS BITONTI STUDIO INC.

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THE MANY BEHIND THE ONE-OFFS New York-based designer Francis glossary Bitonti likes to collaborate with a mix of startups, designers, Fortune Biomimicry When we look to nature — its models, 500s, computer programmers and systems and elements — for inspiration to design and material scientists to print his innovate, solving complex human problems through single- and small-production a little imitation. Kinda like burrs stuck to your pants fashion creations, such as the are to Velcro, wings on a bird are to airplanes and the 17-piece dress for burlesque star structure of seaweed is to the design of Julia Körner’s Dita Von Teese (at top and right), Kelp Jacket. the Brambles jewelry collection (opposite page, top) and the Bristle Stereolithography When we let a laser beam slice Dress (opposite page, lower left). through a vat of liquid resin and harden it layer by layer into intricate shapes, creating parts, prototypes and even haute couture like Iris van Herpen’s Hybrid Holism computer-drawn dress that appears as if it has DID YOU KNOW? / been carved from petrified honey. In 2014, celebrated clothing designer Tommy Laser Sintering When we let a laser beam fuse Hilfiger launched a line of together small particles or powders made of things clothing with solar cells to such as plastic, metal, ceramic and glass, forming charge devices. one larger desired three-dimensional shape like the silicon-coated flesh-tone dress from Iris van Herpen’s Biopiracy Collection. READ Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology by ALBERT SANCHEZ Sabine Seymourc PHOTOGRAPHY

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CLOTHES MADE IN YOUR CLOSET While 3-D printing is nothing new (the technology has existed since the mid-’80s and has been used to create everything from dental implants to prosthetic limbs), there’s no question that as 3-D printers come down in price and accessibility improves, custom- The Tennessee-based printed clothing, jewelry and accessories will “digital cobbler” Feetz become as ubiquitous as online shopping sprees. makes 3-D-printed shoes “One day, it’s going to be this thing in your closet fitted to photos taken of a FRANCIS BITONTI STUDIO INC. where you press a button and you’ll go to sleep, and customer’s feet.d your new shoes will be there in the morning,” said Lucy Beard of Feetz, a digital cobbler of sorts. “It’s fast fashion driven by the consumer.” While the Jetsons-esque appeal of overnight READ Page 14 in this issue of The Henry READ Make: Wearable Electronics: Ford Magazine, and learn about Design, prototype, and wear insta-shoes is still way-off, small startups like the Electroloom, one of the latest your own interactive garments Chicago-based MNGRM are one of the ever-growing startups to mash up 3-D printing by Kate Hartmanc accessories companies around the country that allow and wearable fashion. c customers to design and order their own 3-D-printed jewelry. Architect-cum-computational designer Max Davis learned to build the modeling technology while in school and now uses it (with the help of a 3-D printer on the East Coast) to create 14K gold, “I’m trying to help brands make unconventional methods. He’s willing polished brass, silver and platinum based projects we can build at scale,” Bitonti to ask, ‘Why couldn’t it be like this?’ on any combination of letters or initials. On the apparel side, Dutch designer Martijn van said. “We create these one-off pieces Now we can define and break through Strien recently launched The Post-Couture Collective, to try out ideas, when it’s too early to barriers, while the new school catches which allows the consumer to get made-to-measure, get into large-scale production.” By up and starts to learn what the new custom-fit clothing created from 3-D-knitted material working on collaborations with small digital rules are.” that can be downloaded, printed, assembled and even designers, Bitonti says they’re able to It was a happy printing accident that recycled after it’s worn. “I think this technology tells a story. It shows drop the barrier of entry for them. “Up- created Feetz’s latest collection with consumers exactly what it takes to make a garment, front costs aren’t there, unit costs end Bitonti, a 3-D-printed flat that’s plastic- which should in turn help them understand a $5 up being higher — it’s great for young based but resembles knitted yarn. T-shirt can’t be made in an ethical way,” said van designers at this point in time,” he said. “The printer messed up, and Francis Strien. “I don’t think we’ll all be wearing these exact One of Bitonti’s collaborations looked at it and said, ‘It’s kind of woven, garments in 20 years, but I hope it’s a step in the is with Tennessee-based Feetz, like knitting,’ but instead of yarn, it’s development of a more sustainable and fair industry.” Bitonti foresees more 3-D printing happening in a “digital cobbler” that makes 3-D- made with 3-D filament.” Beard liked homes but agrees it’s still in its infancy. “I could see printed shoes fitted to photos taken the natural look of the material that people starting to have lots of micro-factories for of the customer’s feet. “It’s about bends with the foot, and the next small-batch local productions. The challenge is how mixing old and new,” said founder collection was born. After printing, we’ll be able to do lots of small-batch production at Lucy Beard. “Shoes have been around the shoes are given a soft liner and mass scale.” He sees enthusiasts, hobbyists and gam- for hundreds of years, but you used to carbon fiber sole, and sent to the ers catching on first, and for “those willing to put that effort in, there’s an emotional connection with what go to a cobbler who would wrap your customer within a week. you’re doing, a desire to be a part of that process.” foot for sizing. Then, 200 years ago, “It’s not the material, but how you some British noble created standard use it,” said Beard. “It’s like an egg. It’s shoe sizes based on an ear of corn, this thing in a shell, and if I crack it, I and that was the start of the sizing can drink it raw, or cook it and make it system.” Beard’s goal with Feetz is hard, or whip it into a meringue. It’s the to make every shoe personal to the same fundamental material, but it’s customer, “but you don’t make the about what you do with it and how you new shoe until you want it or need it. transform the properties.” It’s more sustainable. That’s the digital Körner agrees that no matter what side — there’s no waste.” technology or material is used to But even if a sustainable 3-D- make a product, the designer’s vision printed shoe offers a perfect fit, it and craftsmanship remain at the still needs good, wearable design, heart of its creation. and that’s where Bitonti came in. “All these collaborations are sort of “We’d gone over 30 different designs, handcrafted, but the difference is that including weird and wonderful high they’re digitally crafted; so it’s not a couture wedge shoes, which were software that generates these pieces cool, but we wanted them to feel by themselves, it’s still a designer like real shoes,” said Beard. She met sitting there for weeks designing and Bitonti at an event in New York City handcrafting the piece within the com- and recruited him as a designer and puter,” said Körner. “I find it interesting official adviser to Feetz. if a very old tradition is combined with “I like people like Francis,” said a very futuristic technology.” Beard. “He’s an architect, but he And that type of fashion is, no doubt, thinks about weird, quirky ways and the future. l

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24 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 HOME COUTURE The Post-Couture Collective allows consumers to create custom-fit clothing from 3-D-knitted material that can be downloaded, printed, assembled and even recycled after it’s worn. Through MNGRM.com (inset), customers enjoy the same sense of homebound creativity, designing and ordering their own 3-D-printed jewelry online.

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28 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 29 SAVVY SEAMSTRESS Clothier Laura Lee Laroux is one of many upstart designers that have abandoned the world of big fashion to practice their trade in more unconventional small towns and cities, slowly reimagining an industry built around how we make, sell and buy what we wear.

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WHAT’S OLD IS NEW Fashion designer Laura Lee Laroux (left) packed up her sewing machines and moved to Montana to dedicate more time to her clothing line RevivALL. She uses recycled materials to create distinctive and earthy apparel and acces- sories, ranging from overalls and dresses (below) to leather utility belts (right).

Laura Lee Laroux is full of confidence, even though some peers say she shouldn’t be.

Laroux, 36, moved to Bozeman, and media. Why does she think she Montana, with seven sewing machines can make it there? and 12 rolls of fabric in a U-Haul earlier The same could be asked of legions this year, intent on making the rugged of other upstart fashion designers town at the northern foot of the Galla- setting up shop in locales such as tin Range the new headquarters of Lawrence, Kansas; Nashville; and her clothing line. She calls it RevivALL Detroit, none fashion capitals likely because she upcycles old materials to be featured on Project Runway. into new garments, such as ruffled Something is afoot. dresses fashioned from men’s shirts The odds of upstarts breaking profit- and hip bags revived from leather ably into the $2.5 trillion international scraps bought from a recreational fashion business remain long, but vehicle manufacturer. American entrepreneurs like Laroux Laroux had been overly busy and have been newly emboldened to try by underearning in her previous home of a confluence of cultural and economic Eugene, Oregon, running a clothing forces. These include an appetite boutique, co-producing a local fashion among some activist consumers to week and, in the snatches of remaining opt out of the fast-fashion system; time, working on developing RevivALL. Web stores like Etsy that connect small But then, like so many bold Ameri- makers to buyers everywhere; low costs

CLUNEY PHOTO cans, from the pioneers to Kerouac on in postindustrial American cities; the down, she concluded that her destiny, decline of New York’s garment district; DID YOU KNOW? / her chance to leave the old muddle and fledgling pockets of support for The millinery trade had behind and pursue her dream full time, apparel startups by government and long been a traditional lay elsewhere. “I just got some kind of not-for-profit groups. The result of all occupation — it was considered an ideal business for women rumbling inside me that said I have to this has been the growth — some- who needed a livelihood at the leave Eugene,” said Laroux. times halting, occasionally stunted, turn of the 20th century. But Bozeman, population 37,000, but often encouraging — of grassroots isn’t New York or , teeming garment industries across the Ameri- with seamstresses, fashion buyers can landscape.

30 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 “Not all designers have to come to on the couch to dry, and cats would New York,” said Lisa Arbetter, editor be walking all over them.” of the influential fashion magazine Now, the “stuff” she creates in StyleWatch, which has a per-issue her professional print shop on circulation of 825,000. “Every line East 8th Street in the college town doesn’t have to be sold in Saks.” includes men’s ties she buys at thrift stores and upcycles by printing clever A LITTLE IS ENOUGH designs on them, along with baby ONLINE LIKE TO MAKE THINGS? Subscribe to THF OnMaking at It might seem counterintuitive, but onesies and adult shirts she buys thehenryford.org/enewsc the fact that 97 percent of the cloth- wholesale and unprinted from ing sold in the is now , adds LFK logos made overseas, up from 50 percent RESEARCH fashion incubators across the country to and sells at a profit of roughly philadelphiafashionincubator.comc in 1990 and 10 percent in the 1960s, $10 a garment. The line is carried at detroitc3.comc has created opportunity for American downtown shops such as Wonder Fair portlandgarmentfactory.comc makers. While Zara, H&M, Gap and and Ten Thousand Villages eager to fashionincubatorsf.orgc Fast Retailing, the parent of Uniqlo, support local makers. have annual sales of more than $74 billion combined, some of the MORE THAN A HOBBY fashion-forward want to wear clothes Of course, having one artist or even that a million other people aren’t also a dozen eke out a living printing shirts slithering into. (See sidebar on Page one by one is not on its own enough 32 for deeper reasons for this.) to jump-start the economy of a town What’s especially sweet about the or change fashion as we know it. kind of apparel businesses those like The challenges in taking a step up Laroux are starting is that a little suc- from that by launching a relatively cess can be enough. Their ambition is small national apparel brand are not to become the next Betsey John- formidable, as would-be entrepreneur son or Yves St. Laurent, but merely Lisa Flannery learned over the past to gain the satisfaction of earning few years. A veteran of two decades enough money selling dresses made of toil in various roles at big brands from shower curtains, cruelty-free in the Manhattan fashion business, or bespoke buckles Flannery attempted to start her own to quit their boring day jobs. surfwear line. “I’m close to making a living on my “You need serious capital for SELLING SHIRTS TO SURVIVE own stuff,” said Leslie Kuluva, who has development and production; unlim- The LFK clothing line has seen an uptick in sales every year seen sales of her line of LFK T-shirts ited amounts of time for sourcing, since 2006. The Lawrence, Kansas-based fashion startup/ printed in Lawrence, Kansas, rise ev- designing and fitting,” Flannery shared professional print shop is the brainchild of Leslie Kuluva, who is confident her hobby that started on a living room ery year since 2006. Kuluva says when in a long and deeply detailed gush table can become her primary source of income. she started, “I used to print them on during a short break from her current my living room table and lay them out job as a technical design managerc

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at a national clothing brand. “And The Henry Ford.) Meanwhile, DGG Ills of a partner or really good friends and is working with a variety of state Fast family to help you with the sales, agencies to establish a full-blown marketing and PR, legalities and garment district, taking advantage

Fashion accounting, etc., because you need of the decline in New York, where the One reason some consumers are eager to buy from smaller, to handle design and production, district, due to high costs and foreign made-in-the-USA apparel which are really jobs for multiple outsourcing, is a shell of its old self. companies is concern over people — if you can manage to handle Los Angeles has already shown it can the ills of the fast-fashion that, then you confront massive be done, becoming a new apparel- industry as chronicled in minimums, which is why you need all making center. the recent documentary The True Cost and the book Overdressed. While it can be a thrill to buy a of that capital — minimums on fabric, The idea could very well work in for $12 that looks just like the one you saw a starlet trims and the amount of units the Detroit, too, said StyleWatch editor wear in a magazine last week, the documentary factory will produce for you — most Arbetter. “They are training people in shows that the system making that possible relies factories want at least 3,000 a skill that dovetails on pesticide-intensive cotton and inexpensive units — otherwise you are making into the history of that town as a overseas labor. Fashion is the second-most polluting small lots locally at very high prices, manufacturing center, and by doing industry on Earth, right behind oil, the documentary instructs. which your potential customers scoff that, they are creating businesses Roughly 80 billion pieces of at because they are used to Forever and creating jobs. It seems that clothing are purchased globally 21/Zara/H&M prices. And then if you particular city is ripe for this.” in a year — 400 percent more do manage to get some traction, you One key, Buscemi said, is starting than a decade ago. can bet someone is going to knock small by helping young designers find Eleven million tons of you off at a much lower price.” clothes are chucked into stable footing. “They want to come out American landfills annually, Flannery ended up spending more the door from college and be entrepre- rotting and producing methane than $10,000 and gave up when, after neurs,” she noted. “But unless you have gas, and three out of four of subsisting on four hours of sleep a had experience, how are you going to the worst garment factory night, her health started to fail. She’s do that and turn it into a real business disasters in history happened not optimistic about the long-term rather than a hobby you are doing on in 2012 and 2013, including the Rana Plaza collapse in prospects for Laroux and others. the side?” Bangladesh that killed more Such barriers to big dreams are than 1,100 workers. why Karen Buscemi runs the Detroit A COMMUNITY WITHIN Thrift stores aren’t the Garment Group (DGG), a three-year- Apparel brands can change a city. solution either. Only about old nonprofit with an ambitious In Nashville in 2009, the jeans shop 10 percent of clothes donated agenda. “We are trying to make Imogene + Willie opened in a former to thrift stores get sold there. The rest passes Michigan the state for the cut-and- gas station on 12th Avenue South. through dealers who sell sew industry,” said Buscemi, a former Its informal vibe, with cool folks it for pennies per pound, fashion magazine editor. lounging on couches next to stacks sending it via container Funded by donors including two of blue jeans and thick belts — a few ship to overseas merchants, automobile seating manufacturers, doors up from the famed guitar shop everywhere from the Carib- CH4 the DGG offers as one of its five Corner Music — helped establish a bean to Africa, where its cheap presence discourages major programs a fashion incubator. neighborhood aesthetic. the growth of homegrown It takes up to 10 fashion entrepre- As co-owner with her husband, garment industries. neurs; installs them in offices in Carrie Eddmenson explains in the Detroit’s Tech Town building; gives brand’s online statement: “The way monthly workshops on making Matt and I operate has always involved business plans; provides access to a mix of uncertainty reinforced by high-end design equipment for free; intuition, call it a gut feeling.” assigns seven mentors across legal, The words could be a manifesto for WATCH Karen Buscemi of Detroit Garment Group talk about sustainability, sales and other fields; Nashville, where guts, gut feelings and the state of Michigan fashion and, at the end of a year, sets up flights of inspiration have for a century youtube.com/ a showroom where retailers come oozed through the city’s honky-tonk watch?v=RfMJaBGpPlkc and hopefully buy clothes and start veins, only recently spilling out into a wholesale relationship with the creative fields beyond music. ONLINE Take a look at the fashion incubees. Those not admitted to Although the jeans are made in and philosophy of Brooklyn- based designer Suzanne Rae the full program can sign on as an Los Angeles, the store’s bustling suzannerae.comc associate member for $100 a month neighborhood, now known by the to use the high-end printers, pattern- hipster moniker “12 South,” is one of digitizers and other machines to the emblems of Nashville’s ferocious RESEARCH The ethical manufacturing processes of Boll & Branch, create a fashion collection. resurgence. Chef Sean Brock credits creator of fine home fashions DGG’s apprenticeship programs in the city’s apparel scene for his deci- bollandbranch.comc pattern-making and sewing machine sion to open a Nashville outpost of repair promise to help convert the his award-winning restaurant Husk. unemployed into garment workers. “I came back to visit friends,” Brock (DGG’s certificate classes in industrial said, moments after slicing a local sewing are offered at a few schools, ham for thrilled patrons in the dining including in room last winter. “And there was just Dearborn, which is not affiliated with a buzz. People were coming from c

32 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 CUT-AND-SEW CONNOISSEUR Karen Buscemi is using her fashion expertise, her sense of adventure and her nonprofit powerhouse Detroit Garment Group to transform the city of Detroit, a well-known hub for automotive manufacturing, into a full-blown garment-making metropolis.

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Their ambition is not to become the next Betsey Johnson or Yves St. Laurent, but merely to gain the satisfaction of earning enough money selling dresses made from shower curtains, cruelty-free hand- bags or bespoke belt buckles to quit their boring day jobs.

New York and LA to do things like Flea; some from opening a local shop make leather belts.” with other designers; some from sales In Bozeman, Laroux has identified of on the e-commerce what there is of a garment indus- maker superstore Etsy; and some, try and has taken steps to become perhaps, from catching the fancy of a a part of it. There are companies buyer from a national retailer looking producing backpacks there, and for a unique American-made product. Red Ants Pants, a brand that is like The extra bedroom in the faux Carhartt for women, is headquartered colonial she rents with friends, her in Bozeman. Even though not all of share being $600 monthly, has these companies produce apparel become, for now, a design studio and in Montana, their presence, Laroux sewing room. Not for long, Laroux figures, means there must be expert said. “In three months, in my ideal seamstresses, fabric cutters and oth- world, I would have this little storefront er production people around, some of I’ve been looking at downtown, with my them likely willing to take second jobs CHRISTOPHER MORLEY studio in the basement and three other for an ambitious, youngish designer. designers that have studio space, and In her first 10 days in town, Laroux we take turns running the shop.” met with a woman who runs a co- working space and a screen-printing Long ago at fashion school in business, another who has a clothing New York, Laroux had a burned-out boutique and another, Kate Lindsay, professor who told the class none of who founded Bozeman Flea, a market them were ever going to really make for artists and makers. Laroux’s goal it as designers. “’You’re just going to is to start earning $50,000 annually, be getting coffee for people at design after expenses. Some of that income houses,’” she recalled him saying, may come from selling patterns for acting as if administering this dose her dresses for $10 each via websites of reality was a favor. such as Indiesew; some from show- Maybe it was. He made her angry, ing at an upcoming fashion event in and now she’s making her stand, Helena, Montana, and at Bozeman assembling a fashion posse. l

DID YOU KNOW? / READ The Responsible Company: What We’ve Hand-sewing was a way of Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years by life for females in the 18th Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanleyc and 19th centuries. ONLINE Research The Makers Coalition, a group LARRY NIEHUES of businesses, educational institutions, nonprofits and service providers coming together to build a trained cut-and-sew A PLACE FOR DENIM LOVERS industry in America The comfortable vibe inside the Imogene + Willie jeans shop themakerscoalition.orgc in Nashville (at top) has helped co-founders Carrie and Matt Eddmenson (above) reset the tone of a town known best for its musical heritage — as well as sew and sell a good many pairs of jeans praised for their comfort and perfect fit.

34 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 IN- HOUSE 1 THE WALKING WHEEL In the 1760s, rural families TO ON- would spin wool (from sheep raised on-site) on THE- a walking wheel inside the home, creating yarn RACK eventually woven into cloth for making their Way back when, making own clothing. clothing was a house- Walking Wheel, hold enterprise. Many OFF TO A Daggett Farmhouse, families raised the raw HATMAKER Greenfield Village Elizabeth Cohen (shown at materials and did much of the labor-intensive left in front of her Detroit hat 2 ROLLER PRINTING spinning, weaving shop circa 1895) supported The process of printing and hand-sewing to her young family after her designs on textiles using husband died by making produce the clothing a cylinder made these fab- and selling fashionable they needed. Textiles rics much more affordable headwear. Hats similar to were precious, and and fueled demand. By those that would have graced most people had only the 1830s, New England her storefront window more a few garments. Today, textile factories were pro- than a century ago (above) clothing is a massive ducing a staggering 120 can still be admired today at commercial operation Cohen Millinery, now located million yards of cotton — it’s all about us going in Greenfield Village. prints each year. off-site or online and searching out ready- Dress, circa 1835 to-wear from hundreds (shown below) of factory-made items hanging on hundreds 3 THE SEWING MACHINE of racks or presented Sewing machines began MRS. ELIZABETH as seemingly endless to transform the process of choices on websites. sewing clothing during the Here are some of the late 1840s. While it might COHEN tools of the garment take 14 hours to sew a trade that got us from man’s by hand, A WIDOW, A HATMAKER, A FASHION ENTREPRENEUR in-house to in-store, all it would only take an hour part of The Henry Ford by sewing machine. Life is often a juggling act of work, play and family. While current-day clothiers such Archive of American Howe Sewing Machine, as RevivALL’s Laura Lee Laroux and jeans shop co-owner Carrie Eddmenson are Innovation.™ The Henry Ford Digital experiencing the trials and tribulations of being small-town entrepreneurs in the Collections, 1854-1857 big business of fashion, more than 100 years ago many women were facing similar circumstances, leaning on their sense of style to furnish a living. 4 THE DRESS PATTERN Commercial dress patterns In the late 1800s, Elizabeth Cohen had run a millinery store next to her husband’s made planning and cutting dry goods store in Detroit. When he died and left her alone with a young family, she out a garment much eas- consolidated the shops under one roof. Living above the store, she was able to run a 2 ier. These patterns gave business and earn a living while staying near her children. people a guide to making Cohen leveraged middle-class consumers’ growing fascination with fashion, using the correct cuts, sized from mass-produced components to create hats in the latest styles and to the individual small child to adult. tastes of customers. To attract business, resourceful store owners like Mrs. Cohen R.S. Bailey’s New Combina- displayed goods in storefront windows and might have advertised through trade tion System for Ladies and cards or by placing advertisements in newspapers, magazines or city directories. Children’s Waists, Basques, “While Mrs. Cohen was more likely following fashion than creating it, it did take Sacques and Patterns, creativity and design skill,” Jeanine Head Miller, curator of domestic life at The patented 1888 Henry Ford, said of Cohen’s millinery prowess. “She was a small maker connecting The Henry Ford Archive of with local customers in her community — a 19th-century version of Etsy, perhaps, American Innovation™ but without the online reach.” And she certainly gained independence and the satisfaction of supporting her 5 THE POWER LOOM family while selling the hats she created from the factory-produced components The power loom indus- she acquired. “People can appreciate the widowed Elizabeth Cohen’s balancing act,” trialized textile weaving added Miller, “successfully caring for her children while earning a living during an during the early Industrial era when fewer opportunities were available to women.” Revolution, automating the process of weaving — Jennifer LaForce FROM THE HENRY FORD and dramatically reducing ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN the need for the skilled INNOVATION™ human hand. It took Visit Cohen Millinery in Greenfield Village, and browse a collection of authentic late decades and a cast of 19th-century hats and other accessories. Chat with the village’s milliners dressed innovators to perfect in period clothing, and peruse headwear for purchase. Make your own hat at Cohen this technology. Millinery during Motor Muster (June 18-19) and the Old Car Festival (September 10-11.) Draper Company Power Loom, 1935 The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation™

thehenryford.org 35 WHEN FASHION MIRRORS ARCHITECTURE More often than not, these two disciplines and the artists that practice them go hand in hand

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36 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 37 ILLUSTRATION BY BETH HOECKEL

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When the founders of Kate Spade decided in 2015 that they wanted to once again make a go of the accessories business, they decided that their new label, called Frances Valentine, would consist primarily of shoes instead The handbag market is crowded Québec. (See sidebar “Dabbling enough, they said, so rather than with the Dome” on Page 43.) of handbags (which was offer dozens of pocketbooks, they It’s a novel interpretation, but whipped up just a few easy-to-carry hardly an unexpected one. “Fashion the thing they originally totes and a broad range of , is architecture,” once became famous for in the including everything from casual said. “It is a matter of proportions.” sneakers to sky-high stilettos. early 1990s). BODY OR BUILDING No matter what category they’re Indeed, fashion and accessories chasing, designers Andy Spade and designers have long applied the Kate Valentine — who changed her principles of architecture to their surname in order to create a delinea- chosen medium. There are endless tion between the real person and the examples of the two intermingling. still-active brand — will always favor What they have in common is func- clean lines mixed with artful graphic tionality. Unlike art, which often has flourishes. That’s why the collection’s no end use other than contemplation, DID YOU KNOW? / pièce de résistance is a chunky geo- In 2015, Louis Vuitton architecture and fashion both serve artistic director Nicolas desic heel that makes an appearance a purpose. The precision required to Ghesquière showed his in the designer’s spring collection erect a building or some other sort of resort collection in Bob under a strappy and, in the edifice is an inspiration for designers, Hope’s space-age Toluca fall, a sharp Chelsea . The heel Lake estate, which was who must often bring structure to a modernized by architect- was inspired by American architect R. material that lacks form. to-the-stars John Elgin , whose futuristic It’s no surprise that several of Woolf in the 1950s. domes can be found everywhere from fashion history’s greatest practiced Russell Township, Ohio, to , or at least studied architecture before

38 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 CHRISTINE HAHN learning to drape a dress. Tom Ford Becca McCharen, the Brooklyn- was an undergrad at Parsons Paris based designer behind Chromat, has BUILDING HIGH FASHION’S MYSTIQUE The Bella sandal (opposite page) designed by Andy Spade (a branch campus of New York’s used the foundations of her architec- and Kate Valentine features the signature Frances Valentine esteemed The New School) when his ture degree from the University of Vir- heel, inspired by American architect Buckminster Fuller’s eye began to stray from the monu- ginia to build an unorthodox fashion omni-triangulated geodesic dome. Designer Becca McCharen mental toward the sartorial. Legendary label. “Architecture school taught me let her architectural background inspire her SS15: Formula 15 Collection (above and below), a nod to the radical grid system Italian designer Gianni studied how to approach a design project,” and scaffolding-like structures perfected by Superstudio, an architectural drafting while moon- she said. “It is my full reference on Italian architectural collective that rose to fame in the 1960s. lighting as a buyer for his mother’s how to design.” clothing store in southern . Italian Without any formal fashion train- designer Gianfranco Ferre, who earned ing, McCharen treats each garment a degree in architecture from the as if it’s a building. “I think of the body Polytechnic Institute, began his as a building site,” she continued. fashion career designing accessories, “Just as you’d be looking at materi- a process that is often more in line als and the map of a site before you with that of his intended profession — start plans, we’re looking at context, perhaps because it requires the eye of too. Joints and the movement of an industrial designer. the joints all around the place we’re Dubbed “the architect of fashion,” designing for.” Ferre went on to lead the House of The designer, best known for the Dior from 1989 to 1996. His most cage-like structures she molds to the notable contribution to fashion, body, also uses her electrical engi- however, is his white shirt iterations. neering know-how to wire garments (A garment that requires plenty of so that they are illuminated in an engineering to get right.) enticing, not hokey, way.c PAMU

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The Turkish-born, -based designer Hussein Chalayan has been known to draw more directly from the well of home design, crafting a skirt out of a coffee table and creating a dress that functions as a chair. Or there is Los Angeles-based designer (and former architect) Airi Isoda, whose company is called wrk-shp. She has taken to dip- ping clutches in latex house paint and coats in concrete. Isoda, who studied architecture at A MUTUAL ADMIRATION the University of Southern , It might be the minimalists, many has said the exhibit Skin & Bones: of whom are not trained architects, Parallel Practices in Fashion & who take the practice’s theories most Architecture at the Museum of Con- wholeheartedly. temporary Art in Los Angeles was a Cuban-born American designer lightbulb moment. “It was the first Narciso Rodriguez wanted to be an time I saw fashion in a new light — architect before he became a fashion conceptual and architecture for the designer, and the exacting lines of body,” Isoda told the website Archi- his clothing reflect that. “Architec- nect. “Viewing an elaborately draped ture is always one of the foundations dress with folds similar to a façade for me,” he once told The New York of a building I studied in school … it Times. The New York-based design- was just an eye-opening experience er’s favorite buildings include resi- because I saw intellectual fashion, dent treasures such as the Seagram, past its somewhat superficial and Empire State and Chrysler buildings. superfluous nature.”c COURTESY OF WRK-SHP THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES ARCHITECT TOSHIKO MORI BELIEVES IN THE RESILIENCE OF TEXTILES

“What I do doesn’t have anything to Mori’s continual research has do with fashion at all,” said architect brought her to membrane structures, Toshiko Mori, one of the many innova- like that on the roof of Osaka Stadium tors interviewed by The Henry Ford for in Japan. “It’s nearly permanent,” she its Stories of Innovation oral history said. “Instead of using a steel or metal project. And yet, her obsession with new materials — and performance- or glass roof, this is lighter and has an driven textiles in particular — suggests amazing capacity against shading.” that she thinks of functionality in She’s also interested in inflatables the same way an outerwear designer and temperature-controlled textiles, may approach the execution of a such as Uniqlo’s HEATTECH material, down-filled garment. which lets the wearer sweat without Mori, whose most recent work retaining moisture. “That type of idea includes a cultural center in Senegal can be translated into buildings,” where the roof was woven with bamboo and grass, searches for ways to use she said. “One of the most amazing textiles in lieu of hard materials. things about textiles is that they “It’s a primitive method made out have the capacity to incorporate IWAN BAAN of available local materials, but it’s a very complex criteria.” Architect Toshiko Mori’s most recent work includes sophisticated technique,” she said of Watch Toshiko Mori’s interview with helping design and erect Thread, an art and cultural the building. “Really low tech can be The Henry Ford, or read the transcript in center in rural Senegal. The building was constructed using local materials and builders who shared a made into really high tech.” its entirety at thehenryford.org/explore/ The architect likes working with sophisticated knowledge of working with bamboo, stories-of-innovation/visionaries/ textiles because they are flexible and brick and thatch. The roof is made entirely of local toshiki-mori.com. grass thatch and bamboo, and the walls are built from easier to repair. While something like locally made mud bricks. The pitched roof is inverted, concrete may be more resistant, capable of collecting approximately 40 percent of the the damage is more permanent. — Lauren Sherman villagers’ domestic water usage in fresh rainfall.d

40 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 CONSTRUCTION MORE UNCONVENTIONAL Fashion designer Airi Isoda is using architectural materials to construct unusual accessories, from latex paint-dipped pouches to necklaces made of concrete rounds and rope (opposite page). Her spring/summer 2016 clothing collection (below and at right) incorporates U-shaped forms and accents inspired by the cement archways and lily pad columns of Japanese architect Toyo Ito (far lower right).

DID YOU KNOW? / Last year, Raf Simons, then artistic director for , presented his resort collection in legendary designer ’s Bubble Palace in the south of , a 13,000-square-foot complex designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag.

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TOP CUFF, COURTESY OF ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS; BOTTOM CUFF, JÎRG BROCKMANN

BLURRING THE LINES Designers are simultaneously creating a name for themselves in the worlds of both architecture and fashion. Before her death in 2016, architect Zaha Hadid was just as famous for her work on the Guangzhou Opera House in China (above) as she was her intricate fashion jewelry (top left). Meanwhile, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is forging fashionable ground designing spaces for , including one in New York’s SoHo (left).

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Isoda went on to study fashion tions have nothing to do with actual “Fashion is design; wrk-shp is a culmination of clothes. Consider the ongoing part- her multiple disciplines. The company nership between Koolhaas and Prada. architecture. designs clothing and accessories, He has designed several retail stores lighting, objects and buildings in for the Italian brand and also collabo- It is a matter Los Angeles and beyond. In fact, the rates with its leader, Miuccia Prada, buildings of Japanese architect Toyo on collection visuals. The relationship of proportions.” Ito inspired Isoda’s latest apparel between these two — underscored collection. In particular, his “lily pad” in the skate-park-like Prada store — Coco Chanel columns have informed her silhouettes in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, and pocket details. which still impresses 15 years after it It’s important to note that the opened — has served as an example relationship between fashion for many. Like Prada’s clothes, Kool- and architecture is one of mutual haas’ concepts remain interesting RESEARCH Monash University Art, Design and Archi- admiration. “Starchitects” are often tecture (MADA) Wearing the City project years, and even decades, after they artdes.monash.edu.auc commissioned to design clothing and accessories. For instance, architect are conceived. Zaha Hadid was almost as well known Making things that last, not just for her honeycomb-lattice jewelry as structurally but also intellectually, RESEARCH New York label Opening Ceremony, and she was for erecting the Guangzhou is the greatest challenge for both see if you can identify similarities to the architects and fashion designers. work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright in its Opera House. Before her death in mid-century-inspired spring collectionc 2016, she had also collaborated with Perhaps the fact that clothing and the shoe label United Nude, as has buildings are both rooted in need first Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. and desire second best explains why But many of the most important these two worlds cannot be uncoupled fashion and architecture collabora- from one another. l

42 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 DABBLING WITH THE DOME FULLER’S ARCHITECTURAL INVENTION INSPIRES FAR MORE THAN JUST DESIGNERS OF DWELLINGS Examine the seemingly misshapen heel of a Frances Valentine strappy sandal, and then take a closer look at photographic prints of geodesic domes in The Henry Ford Digital Collections. You should see some similarities. The dome’s design is the brainchild of architect R. Buckminster Fuller, the invention that dominated his life and career and is undoubtedly an inspiration for the high-fashion footwear’s design. Fuller’s geodesic dome encloses more space without intrusive supporting columns than any other structure and can efficiently distribute stress (which, when IWAN BAAN considering your shoes, isn’t a bad characteristic for something you’re putting all of your body weight on). Its design is based on Fuller’s “synergetic geometry” and his revolutionary discoveries about balancing compression and tension forces in building. According to the Buckminster Fuller Institute, there are more than 300,000 geodesic domes around the world today. They range from shelters in California and Africa to radar stations in remote locations. Drive by your local children’s playground, and you will probably see some type of geodesic-domed structures as well. And that’s not even counting the endless examples found in other less architecture-related fields, such as fashion and home decor. Next time you’re at Ikea, give some extra examina- tion to many of the lighting options hanging from the ceiling and ready for sale. Shop around on etsy.com, and scroll through the hundreds of vintage and modern-day dome-inspired ring, and pendant designs. There’s even a high-fashion inflatable dress similar to those giant human hamster balls that are all the rage at street fairs and carnivals, geodesic in design and shape.

— Jennifer LaForce

ONLINE View a large selection of prints, photographs and other materials about Buckminster Fuller and his architectural structures in The Henry Ford’s Digital Collections thehenryford.org/collectionsc

DID YOU KNOW? / DID YOU KNOW? / Buckminster Fuller was Buckminster Fuller known to experiment with designed his first wearing unconventional commercial dome for clothing early in his career, Ford Motor Company but he later adopted a more at its headquarters in black-suit wardrobe so Dearborn, Michigan, people wouldn’t devalue in 1953. his ideas due to his choice of dress.

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thehenryford.org 45 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD HENRY FORD MUSEUM DID YOU KNOW? / Talks between The Henry Ford and the Roddis family first began when a connection was made between the of a garment (shown below) and a Detroit dress- A STORY maker named Barbara Hunt. WOVEN OF CLOTH One family’s collection of stylish clothing tells a fascinating tale of American life

DID YOU KNOW? / human to want to leave a Though the family was prosperous, they The mannequins displaying items from the Roddis collection are made legacy — some small impact didn’t have an unlimited clothing budget, stock- of chemically inert materials and on the world that will outlive ing their closets very wisely. “Their clothing was are modified as needed to provide us. For the Roddis family tasteful, beautifully designed and constructed, support for the garments so that It’s gravity and tension do not stress of Wisconsin, that legacy but not pretentious,” Miller added. the materials. comes partially in the form Hamilton and Catherine’s daughter Augusta of generations’ worth of played a key role in preserving the generations clothing, now a part of The Henry Ford Archive of the family’s garments acquired by The Henry of American Innovation. Ford, storing items in her family home’s third- “What’s absolutely wonderful about this floor attic for decades. collection is it’s from one family and spans Augusta Roddis died in 2011. The Henry SAVE THE DATE many decades and several generations,” said Ford acquired her treasured collection in 2014. Preview Reception Jeanine Head Miller, curator of domestic life American Style and Spirit: 130 Years of Fashions November 4, 2016 for The Henry Ford. “Often, people don’t save and Lives of an Entrepreneurial Family goes on Be the first to see selected things to this degree — they get dispersed exhibit in the museum on November 5. clothing, accessories, family and their stories are lost.” “Now that The Henry Ford is the custodian of photographs and printed materials of The Henry The Roddis family was a successful middle- the collection, it is our responsibility to preserve Ford’s Roddis collection class family living in Marshfield, Wisconsin, these garments for the future,” said Fran Faile, during the exclusive exhibit from the 1890s to the 2010s. William H. Roddis textile conservator at The Henry Ford. “We do preview for American Style moved to this small town from Milwaukee that by housing them in specialized storage and Spirit: 130 Years of with his wife, Sara, and his son Hamilton and areas, exhibiting them only for limited periods Fashions and Lives of an daughter Frances in 1894. There, he turned a of time and ensuring that the materials used for Entrepreneurial Family. struggling veneer business into the thriving display are safe for the delicate fabrics. We are For details and updates about this special event, Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company. His son committed to providing the best possible care visit thehenryford.org/ Hamilton continued this success. And there, for the artifacts entrusted to us.” AmericanStylePreview. Hamilton Roddis and his wife, Catherine Prindle, Even the most delicate of repairs are raised a family of five daughters and one son. considered carefully, she added. Though living in a small town away from “In the end, what the family appreciated urban centers, the well-educated Roddis family about The Henry Ford was that we valued was in touch with the larger world. The Roddis the context,” noted Miller. “The garments are women loved stylish clothes and found ways lovely and interesting to look at, yet they take to keep up with fashion. “Their closets held us beyond, into broader stories of America. garments available in the stores of Milwaukee, So the collection is about more than just Chicago, New York or Paris — as well as stylish fashion. It’s about people — and the American garments made by Catherine,” Miller said. experience spanning more than 130 years.”

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cThousands of items are created, cared for and stored in The Henry Ford’s Clothing Studio, from period-correct clothing and fanciful costumes to hand puppets and bat bags used A during Historic Base in WARDROBE Greenfield Village. WORKSHOP The on-site Clothing Studio ensures everyone at The Henry Ford is dressed their part

Greenfield Village and you for hundreds of fitting sessions for new and can’t help but notice the current employees. clothing. From the colonial- “When it comes to historic clothing, our goal Visit era linen garments worn by is to create garments accurate to the period — the Daggett Farmhouse staff what our research indicates people in that time as they go about their daily and place wore,” said Donohue. “For our group, chores to the 1920s flapper- planning for Hallowe’en is an especially fun style dresses donned by the village singers, or challenge. We have more creative license with even the protective clothing worn by the pottery costumes for this event than we typically do shop staff in the Liberty Craftworks district — with our daily period clothing.” all outfits in Greenfield Village are designed to For Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village, the add to the guest experience. In many cases, studio staff researches new characters and can these tangible elements help accurately work on the design and development for more showcase the time period being interpreted. elaborate wearables for months. In addition “Clothing is such a big part of history,” said to new costume creation, each year existing The Clothing Studio Tracy Donohue, general manager of The Henry outfits are refreshed and/or reinvented. Last works year-round, Ford’s Clothing Studio, which creates most year, for example, the studio added the Queen outfitting staff and of The Henry Ford’s reproduction apparel and of Hearts, Opera Clown and a number of other presenters for the textiles for daily programs as well as seasonal new characters to the Hallowe’en catalog. Plus, everyday to dressing events. “It’s a huge part of how we live even they freshened the look of the beloved dancing hundreds for extra today. The period clothing we provide helps skeletons and the popular pirates. seasonal programs. See bring to life the stories we tell in the village and Historic clothing, period photographs, prints, the clothing spectacular during special events enhances the experience for our visitors.” trade catalogs and magazines from the Archive in Greenfield Village, The Clothing Studio is tucked away on the of American Innovation provide a wealth of including: second floor of Lovett Hall. It provides clothing on-site resources to explore the styles, cloth- for nearly 800 people a year in accurate period ing construction and fabrics worn by people garments, costumes and uniforms, and covers decades or centuries ago. Each year, Jeanine more than 250 years of fashion — from 1760 to Head Miller, curator of domestic life, and Fran the present day — making the studio one of the Faile, textile conservator, host the studio’s Motor Muster, June 18-19 premier museum period clothing and costume talented staff for a field trip to the collections Salute to America, shops in the country. storage area for an up-close look at original June 30, July 1-3 The scope and flow of work in the studio is clothing from a variety of time periods. Old Car Festival, immense, from outfitting staff and presenters “Getting the details right really matters,” September 10-11 for the everyday to clothing hundreds for extra Miller said. “Clothing is part of the powerful Hallowe’en in Greenfield seasonal programs such as Historic Base Ball, immersive experience we provide in Greenfield Village, October 14-16, Hallowe’en and Holiday Nights. Work on the Village. Having people in accurate period cloth- 20-23 and 27-30 April opening of Greenfield Village, for example, ing in the homes and the buildings helps our Holiday Nights in begins before the Holiday Nights program ends visitors understand and immerse themselves Greenfield Village, December 2-4, 9-11, in December, with the sewing of hundreds of in the past, and think about how it connects 16-18, 20-23 and 26-30 stock garments and accessories in preparation to their own lives today.”

ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing, DID YOU KNOW? / visit thehenryford.org/villagec The Clothing Studio has a comprehensive computerized inventory management system, BILL BOWEN which tracks close to 50,000 items. 48 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 WHAT THEY’RE WEARING UNDER THERE At Greenfield Village, costume accuracy goes well beyond what’s on the surface. Depending on the time period they’re interpreting, women may also wear , and stays. “Our presenters have a lot of pride in wear- ing the clothing and wearing it correctly,” said Tracy Donohue, general manager of The Henry Ford’s Clothing Studio. While the function in the service of historic accuracy, corsets also provide back support and chemises help absorb sweat. Natural fibers in cotton fabrics breathe, so they’re often cooler to wear than modern-day synthetic fabrics. And when the weather runs to extreme cold conditions, layers of period-appropriate outerwear help keep village staff warm. The staff at the Clothing Studio also sometimes turns to a few of today’s tricks to keep staff comfortable. Wind- and water-resistant performance fabrications are often built into Hallowe’en costumes to offer a level of protection from outdoor elements. “It can be 100 degrees in the summer and 10 degrees on a cold Holiday Night,” Donohue said. “Our staff is out in the elements, and they still have to look amazing. We care about the look and overall visual appearance of the outfit, of course, but we also care about the person wearing it.”

dCostumed presenters for Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village don both outer and under garments designed to keep them warm and dry.

DID YOU KNOW? / During each night of Hallowe’en, Clothing Studio staff are on call, checking on costumed presenters throughout the evening to ensure they look their best.

thehenryford.org 49 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD FORD ROUGE FACTORY TOUR PAINT A BIGGER PICTURE Fumes to Fuel program at Ford Rouge Complex strives to make process of adding color onto more environmentally friendly

the Ford Rouge Factory is “nasty stuff,” according to David Crompton, Tour, and a number of a senior environmental engineer at Ford Motor sustainable, environmentally Company. “A lot of countries will not permit the Take conscious manufacturing discharge of it into the atmosphere,” he added, practices and processes “so our early work focused on developing ways jump out at you right away. of abating those solvents.” You’ll see the Dearborn Truck The Fumes to Fuel process, which has been Plant’s massive living roof and purposeful refined over several years, pushes solvent- use of natural light. You can even walk the laden exhaust air through a carbon bed. The surrounding outdoor sanctuary where birds carbon removes the solvents from the exhaust, nest, flowers bloom and honeybees flourish. leaving behind clean exhaust that can be safe- Other examples of the Ford Rouge Complex’s ly discharged into the atmosphere. The carbon commitment to minimize its environmental is then swept with nitrogen, heating it up and impact are not as readily available for public removing the solvents. The carbon returns to viewing — even on the tour — but that doesn’t the absorption stage, and the solvent-laden make them any less extraordinary. The Fumes nitrogen is condensed into a liquid form. to Fuel program was piloted at the Ford Rouge The entire process ends up being more Complex in 2002, designed to find solutions environmentally friendly than producing water- to the environmental issues posed by the exis- based coatings, because less energy is required tence of solvents in automotive coatings. and the potentially harmful solvents are abated. “What really impresses me is Ford’s “Some of our competitors chose water- continued commitment to tackle big issues based coatings,” Crompton said. “We believe and figure out new processes and ways of that solvent-born technology provides the best doing things that not only make it better overall environmental performance because the for the product but also address air and technology requires less energy consumption,

water issues,” said Cynthia Jones, general which translates into lower CO2 emissions. manager of the Ford Rouge Factory Tour. It also allows lower facility and operating costs, “Ford is pushing the paint industry to make so there’s a smaller overall footprint.” paints better, and it is also pushing to make Another added benefit, the solvent-born its own processes better.” coatings give Ford vehicles a best-in-class Solvents in the paint used to vehicles finish in terms of durability and chip and wind up in the exhaust system, and what’s left scratch resistance.

cThe paint and painting process in Ford automotive ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing DID YOU KNOW? / manufacturing plants are for the Ford Rouge Factory Tour, visit The Ford Rouge Factory Tour’s Manufacturing highly sophisticated. While thehenryford.org/rougec Innovation Theater received a 2016 Thea Award workers once applied paint for outstanding achievement for a brand experience. to a new vehicle, today the The Thea awards program honors creative excellence task is done robotically to ONLINE INTO HOW CARS ARE MADE? in theme parks, and other attractions, ensure less overspray and Subscribe to THF OnWheels at and is considered one of the attraction industry’s a more application. thehenryford.org/enewsc greatest honors.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY ARCHIVES

50 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 OFF THE FLOOR BLING Several decades ago, Ford Motor Company and many other auto manufacturers used heavy lac- quer paint on vehicles. Workers in full protective gear would spray the paint onto the vehicles, an imprecise process that led to over- spray. Eventually, this overspray would accumulate and need to be scraped off the floors and walls. “They were painting white cars, then yellow cars, then red cars, building layer upon layer of color,” said Cynthia Jones, general manager of the Ford Rouge Fac- tory Tour. “So you can see how it could be beautiful. But when you scraped it off the floor and walls, it looked terrible — just this mass of paint goo.” But to a creative eye, a mass of ugly paint goo can easily become the makings of something beauti- ful. Fordite, which is large chunks of the hardened paint layers, is now the inspiration for a line of jewelry selling like hot cakes at retailer The Detroit Mercantile Co. in the Eastern Market district. “When we opened in 2012, we did a lot of blue-sky thinking about the things we wanted to have here, and one of them was Fordite jewelry,” said owner Robert Stenzel, whose great-grandfather migrated to Detroit to take a job with Ford. “We wanted to do stuff that delved a little deeper into Detroit and its identity, and Fordite was one of those things. I like to describe it as a distinctive regional semiprecious material.” Stenzel looked for a Fordite vendor and then commissioned a local jeweler, Emily Saling, to make jewelry from it. “It was a hit from day one,” he stated. “We can’t keep enough in stock. I like to think we participated somehow in the revival of this distinctive regional material, but I think it would have happened anyway.”

DID YOU KNOW? / You can purchase Fordite jewelry in The Henry Ford gift shops as well as online at thehenryford.org/shop.

thehenryford.org 51 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD GIANT SCREEN EXPERIENCE bThis summer, visitors to The Henry Ford Giant Screen Experience can see a remastered edition of the 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night, starring (from left) Paul, George, Ringo and John, better known as the English rock sensation the Beatles.

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT IMAGE COURTESY OF JANUS FILMS FESTIVAL OF FILMS The Henry Ford’s new theater joins elite group of venues showing curated set of movies

The Henry Ford Giant Screen festival’s 10-day run at theaters and institu- Experience opened its doors tions in Detroit, Dearborn and Ann Arbor. It will this past April, visitors to the feature the best feature-length dramas, com- Since theater have been enjoying edies and documentaries from the world’s best a slew of great films, from film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, director Mike Slee’s Robots 3D Venice and Toronto. and MacGillivray Freeman’s National Parks Adventure to James Cameron’s What’s great about a film festival is that DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D. All of them are along with seeing the films, you can expect shown on a new high-gain MDI Premium the opportunity to participate in after-show HGA silver screen, using new Christie 4K discussions, Q&A sessions with directors and digital projection as well as a new QSC Audio actors, and other related events. It’s a truly system with 5.1 channels of surround sound. interactive cinematic experience. Moviegoers tell us the larger, more comfortable The complete, curated list of films, along seats aren’t too shabby either. with the whens and where they are showing This June, the film lineup at the Giant Screen during the festival, is available online at Experience takes an even more interesting and cinetopiafestival.org. Among other festival eclectic turn as The Henry Ford joins — for the first time — an exclusive group of southeastern activities, The Henry Ford Giant Screen Michigan venues as part of the highly rated Experience is hosting the Detroit-area Cinetopia International Film Festival, June 3-12. premiere of Werner Herzog’s documentary Now in its fifth year, Cinetopia 2016 will host Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected more than 100 screenings of films over the World and Johnnie To’s 3-D musical Office.

Individual film tickets and festival passes are available through the Cinetopia Film Festival. Visit cinetopiafestival.org for the complete film lineup, venue locations and to purchase tickets.

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ONLINE visit cinetopiafestival.orgc DID YOU KNOW? / The Cinetopia festival programming is selected by a team that includes Indiewire influencer Russ Collins from the Michigan Theater and the Detroit ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing, visit thehenryford.org/giantscreenc Film Theatre’s national “dean” of art house programming Elliot Wilhelm.

The Giant Screen Experience is no DID YOU KNOW? / longer an IMAX® Theatre. The Michigan Theater, a nonprofit center for fine film and the performing arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the home of the Cinetopia International Film Festival.

52 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 FILMS TO FILL YOUR DAYS While the Cinetopia International Film Festival only lasts for 10 days in June, the lineup of movies gracing The Henry Ford Giant Screen Experience this summer and beyond is long as well as entertaining and educational. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Made in 1964, this film immerses you in a day in the life of the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania. It’s been reformatted and remastered for the Giant Screen Experi- ence. See the film and then complement it with a visit inside Henry Ford Museum to see The Magical History Tour: A Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition (in the museum through September 18). “People who love the Beatles look for and love this film,” Amy Louise Liedel, senior director of guest operations for The Henry Ford, said of A Hard Day’s Night. “We will have an excellent, high-quality presentation, with the film reformatted from the original negative to 4K digital and remastered for sound in 5.1 channels.”

MORE MOVIES Other great films and popular documenta- ries playing this year at the Giant Screen Experience include: Dark Universe 3D James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D Living in the Age of Airplanes National Parks Adventure 3D Robots 3D Members of The Henry Ford receive free admission to all traditional documentary films and discounted admission to classic and feature-length films. See thehenryford.org for showtimes and ticket pricing.

thehenryford.org 53 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD ACQUISITIONS + COLLECTIONS LABEL OF AN AVIATOR Apparel bearing the name of Amelia Earhart is one of the earliest examples of pairing fame with fashion

Olsen twins. Justin signature and a red airplane in flight) was put Timberlake. Jessica up for auction, The Henry Ford was more than Simpson. . interested in its possible acquisition. The Today, there’s an eclectic “When I saw the , I was intrigued,” mix of musicians, actors said Miller. “I thought this is so right for The and Hollywood personalities Henry Ford because of its connection to the that have leveraged their stories we tell of early aviation.” fame to launch successful fashion lines. More than 80 years ago, famed female Miller’s further research on the clothing line aviator Amelia Earhart was one of the first to also showed that garments bearing Earhart’s put her name to a clothing label. The garments label are quite scarce. Unfortunately, the cloth- — with simple lines and midrange prices — ing line was not long-lived; it was sold at Macy’s were inspired by Earhart’s interest in functional in New York and at a few department stores in clothing for active living. other major cities for a short time. Even so, its According to Jeanine Head Miller, curator significance in fashion’s storybook remains. of domestic life at The Henry Ford, Earhart, “What’s interesting is that she was the first celebrated for her refusal to be bound by celebrity to have a clothing line,” stated Miller. gender norms as well as her accomplish- “Her clothes followed fashions of the time — ment as the first woman to fly solo across , became admired for her stylish most weren’t really original or avant-garde, but appearance, from her sporty haircut to her do mirror Amelia’s desire for unencumbered, modern, comfortable clothing. simple and sporty clothing.” When one of Earhart’s still bearing It was Earhart’s name and image that were her spare, modern label (emblazoned with her the true selling points.

DID YOU KNOW? / Amelia Earhart’s foray into was motivated by her need to finance her aviation activities. She also endorsed a range of consumer products in the same quest.

ONLINE For more information about the collections of The Henry Ford, visit thehenryford.org/collectionsc

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FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™ 54 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 bThis blouse was part of the clothing line launched by aviator Amelia Earhart in 1934 — one of the first examples of celebrity- inspired fashion.

WILLA’S BLOUSE Willa Wright Nicodemus was an outdoorsy woman who grew up on a Missouri farm and later moved to Chicago, where she worked as a clerk in a brokerage office. In 1932, Willa, 47, married Edwin Nicodemus, a retired banker and lawyer. The couple enjoyed adventure and travel, fishing in , cruising the Yukon River in Alaska and touring Nevada and the Colorado River. Somewhere during her travels, Nicodemus purchased a blouse, one designed for the female who appreciated an active lifestyle. That blouse is the Amelia Earhart- designed garment now in The Henry Ford’s collection.

thehenryford.org 55 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD INSIDE THE HENRY FORD 2016 Celebrate. Play. Events Imagine.

bGet ready to rumble. MegaBots is coming to Maker Faire® Detroit.

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56 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 57 MAKER FAIRE® DETROIT JULY 30-31 THE HENRY FORD

The Henry Ford always goes big when Matt Oehrlein, one of the co-found- it comes to hosting Maker Faire Detroit. ers of MegaBots and a longtime fan 2016 promises to be no different. and participant on the Maker Faire cir- In fact, it might actually go just a cuit, shared a few secrets about what bit bigger than ever before. his team will be bringing to Maker Faire The call for makers went out at the Detroit. “Visitors can expect to see the beginning of April, and the number six-ton, 15-foot-tall MegaBots Mark II and scope of innovators answering that challenged Japan to a robot duel,” The Henry Ford’s summon didn’t he said. “We’ll be testing the weapon disappoint. Visitors to the event can system of Mark II on a scrap vehicle in expect some old favorites to be on The Henry Ford’s parking lot.” the scene, such as Maker Works’ Great After weapon tests are completed, Maker Race and Cirque Amongus, Oehrlein promises there will be as well as lots of opportunities to do plenty of meet-and-greet ops with some hands-on innovating and buy the MegaBots team and the Mark II. DIY things. But the big story for Maker “Autographs and group selfies are Faire 2016 (and we add extra emphasis welcome, too,” he added. on the word “big”) is the locked-down The Henry Ford’s Wilson and appearance of MegaBots, said Shauna Oehrlein agree that the matchup of Wilson, senior manager of national events for The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford, Maker Faire Detroit If you’re not familiar with MegaBots, and MegaBots is a no-brainer. Noted it’s an American company that makes Oehrlein, “The Henry Ford gives a 15-foot-tall, internally piloted human- historical look at innovation over time, oid robots that fire cannonball-sized and we believe MegaBots represents MEGABOTS INC. paintballs at speeds of more than innovation of today. It will be amaz- 120 miles per hour. MegaBots made ing for people to come to Maker Faire quite the media splash last year when Detroit, walk through The Henry Ford it challenged Japan to a giant robot and see innovation over the years, and duel and Japan accepted. (The date then come outside and witness a six- and locale of the historic duel against ton robotic beast representing today’s Kuratas, Japan’s 9,000-pound robot, advancements in technology. We are DID YOU KNOW? / The MegaBot Mark II made are still to be determined.) so excited to be a part of this story.” its debut at the San Mateo Maker Faire in 2015.

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56 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 57 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD INSIDE THE HENRY FORD 2016 Events YEAR-ROUND Historic Base Ball Macy’s 2nd Games THE MOST EXHAUSTIVE BEATLES EXHIBITION EVER ASSEMBLED, Mondays June 11-12, 18-19 and featuring instruments, clothing, rare original photos, Children’s Program 25-26 handwritten lyrics and many never-before-displayed artifacts. Greenfield Village The Magical History Tour: A Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition is (10 a.m.-noon) on display through September 18 in Henry Ford Museum. June 13, Historic Base Ball in Green- July 11, August 8, field Village is made possible through the generous support September 12, of Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II October 10 Greenfield Village National Get November 14, Outdoors Day December 12 June 11 Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village Motor Muster Thursday June 18-19 (Open Night Flix* Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w (Monthly, 2nd Thursday, Greenfield Village 7 p.m.) July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8 w Giant Screen Experience EXHIBITION DEVELOPED BY EXHIBITS DEVELOPMENT GROUP IN COLLABORATION WITH PETER MINIACI & ASSOCIATES Tinker. Hack. Invent. Saturdays Historic Base Ball World Tournament Fall Flavor Weekend (10 a.m.-3 p.m.) Games of Historic Base Ball® September 24-25 Every Saturday FROM THE HENRY FORD July 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, August 13-14 Greenfield Village Henry Ford Museum ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN 23-24 and 30-31 Greenfield Village INNOVATION™ Greenfield Village Historic Base Ball in Green- Farmers Market JUNE field Village is made possible September 24 Summer Camp* Maker Faire® through the generous support Greenfield Village The Magical History of Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II Tour: A Beatles June 27-July 1, Detroit* Memorabilia July 11-15, July 18-22, July 30-31 (Open OCTOBER Exhibition* July 25-29, August 1-5 Saturday and Sunday Fall Flavor Weekend and August 8-12 w Running through ’til 6 p.m.) October 1-2 The Henry Ford September 18 The Henry Ford Greenfield Village Henry Ford Museum In collaboration with Annual Salute Maker Media Exhibition developed by Farmers Market to America* Exhibits Development Group October 1 June 30, July 1-3 w in collaboration with Peter AUGUST Greenfield Village Miniaci & Associates Greenfield Village The Magical History Presented by Meijer Tour: A Beatles KMS PHOTOGRAPHY Hallowe’en in JULY Memorabilia Greenfield Village* Outdoor Living The Magical History Exhibition* SEPTEMBER Lab Tour* October 14-16, 20-23 Tour: A Beatles Running through The Magical History and 27-30 w Running through Memorabilia September 18 Tour: A Beatles Greenfield Village October 8 Exhibition* Henry Ford Museum Memorabilia Ford Rouge Factory Tour Running through Exhibition* Hallowe’en in September 18 Historic Base Ball Running through Greenfield Village Cinetopia Henry Ford Museum Games September 18 Dinner Package* International August 6-7, 13-14 Film Festival* Henry Ford Museum October 14-15, 20-22 Annual Salute and 20-21 and 27-29 w June 3-12 w to America* Greenfield Village 66th Annual Greenfield Village Giant Screen Experience July 1-3 w Old Car Festival Greenfield Village September 10-11 (Open Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village

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NOVEMBER Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village* Get an inside look American Style at the experiences of and Spirit: 130 December 2-4, 9-11, The Henry Ford at Years of Fashions 16-18, 20-23, 26-30 w blog.thehenryford.org. and Lives of an Greenfield Village Entrepreneurial Family Preview* Holiday Nights BEST VALUE! November 4 w Supper with Santa Members receive Henry Ford Museum Package at A Taste of History®* free admission to Henry Ford Museum, December 2-4, 9-11, American Style Greenfield Village, w and Spirit: 130 16-18 and 20-23 free documentary Years of Fashions Greenfield Village and traditional films and Lives of an at the Giant Screen Entrepreneurial Holiday Nights in Experience, plus, Family Greenfield Village exclusive discounts. November 5, 2016- Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern* Learn more at April 2, 2017 thehenryford.org/ Henry Ford Museum December 2-4, 9-11, membership. 16-18, 20-23 and Member 26-30 w Appreciation Days Greenfield Village *Additional fee and/ November 18-21 or advance reservation The Henry Ford required ------Members 23rd w Annual Holiday cDior dress, circa 1959, on display at Special evening hours American Style and Spirit: 130 Years of during these events Lighting Ceremony* Fashions and Lives of an Entrepreneurial November 21 w Family, November 5, 2016-April 2, 2017 Henry Ford Museum in Henry Ford Museum. All programs and dates are subject to change. Presented by DFCU Financial

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dThe spirit of the season rings throughout Greenfield Village during Holiday Nights, December 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 20-23 and 26-30.

58 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 59 INSIDEINSIDE THETHE HENRY FORD FORD INSIDE THE HENRY FORD Connect 3 Curators uncover curious connections between artifacts and ideas

GUIDED CREATIVITY

aTRAIL BLAZING NO. 8 ZEPPELIN ERECTOR SET, 1929 A.C. Gilbert introduced erector sets in 1913, inspired by watching workers erect an dTRIPTIK MAP electrical system FOR DETROIT, along a railroad line. MICHIGAN, TO FORT LAUDER- MAKE THE DALE, FLORIDA CONNECTION: 1951-1952 Prefabricated pieces and manufactured AAA’s iconic planning mini-motors give guide provided travelers mechanically inclined with destination direc- kids the materials and tions, points of interest know-how to create and a list of services their own masterpiece. and accommodations AMERICAN available along the way. GLORY QUILT MAKE THE CIRCA 1961 “While this erector CONNECTION: set, quilt kit and Trip- Quilt kits gave those A customized travel who liked to sew but plan removes the Tik blaze a trail and didn’t necessarily uncertainty of the open provide a prescribed possess a designer road but still leaves mindset a predeter- room for spontaneous path to follow, they also mined pattern to work adventure and creating from. The American your own path. leave room to wander Glory quilt was made off the beaten path and from a kit produced by use one’s creativity.” Paragon. — Jeanine Head Miller, aMAKE THE curator of domestic life, CONNECTION: The Henry Ford A prescribed design and pre-stamped fabric eliminate the need for big design decisions but still give the quilt maker the freedom to express him/herself.

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Red Roof Inn - Detroit-Dearborn Dearborn 7 111 • 0 67

Staybridge Suites - Dearborn Dearborn 7 99 Indoor • $ (1) 35 73

Bishop-Brighton Bed & Breakfast Downriver 20 3 1 350 74

BED & York House Bed & Breakfast Dearborn 10 3 0 74 BREAKFAST

NW Oakland Camp Dearborn 45 191 Outdoor 0 74 County Outdoor Detroit Greenfield Campground/RV Park I-94 corridor 20 212 On lake • 600 74 CAMPING pavilion

*Drive time in minutes to The Henry Ford.

62 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org 63 The Dearborn Inn puts you at a distinct advantage of being just three blocks from The Henry Ford. Built in 1931, this 23-acre colonial REVIVE THE PLEASURE retreat offers a setting reminiscent of a classic American inn, with a OF TRAVEL. AAA four-diamond rating and the level of service and amenities you expect from Marriott.

For reservations and group bookings, call 313-271-2700 or visit DearbornInnMarriott.com

THE DEARBORN INN, A MARRIOTT HOTEL 20301 OAKWOOD BOULEVARD DEARBORN, MICHIGAN 48124

Southgate, MI

Your Comfort Is Assured… • Free Deluxe Hot Breakfast Buffet • Free Wi-Fi • Indoor Swimming Pool / Sauna / Steam Room • Large HD TVs with HD Channels • Spacious Luxury Suites with Choice of 1 King or 2 Queen Beds Henry Ford Package & Group Tour Support Available

734.287.9200 www.comfortsuitessouthgate.com The Region’s Only Hotel 18950 Northline Rd., Southgate, MI 48195 With On-Site Renewable Energy

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NEWLY UPGRADED AND REMODELED!

BY CHOICE HOTELS 6778 South Telegraph Road Taylor, Michigan 48180

ENJOY A COMFORTABLE STAY WITH OUTSTANDING HOSPITALITY! AMENITIES INCLUDE At the Comfort Inn & Suites of Taylor, we specialize in package • Jacuzzi Suites and Two-Room Suites • Free Bus Parking rates including tickets to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield • Free Hot Deluxe Breakfast • Dry Cleaning Services Village. For your convenience, we offer a courtesy shuttle to • Free Wireless Internet Access • Guest Laundry Facility and from The Henry Ford. • Conference Room • Free Shuttle Service We’re centrally located within a few miles of The Henry Ford, • downtown Detroit and Windsor, Canada. • Indoor Heated Pool, Dry Sauna Each Room Contains Refrigerator, and Fitness Center Set, Hair Dryer, Coffee and • 42” Flat-Screen TVs & 105 Channels Coffee Maker, In-Room Safe

WWW.COMFORTINN.COM • (PHONE) 313.292.6730 • (EMAIL) [email protected]

thehenryford.org 65 Stay PRODUCTIVE. Feel REFRESHED. • Free high-speed Internet access • Complimentary hot ‘Be Our Guest’ breakfast • Comfortable spacious rooms • Business center • Fitness center • And more!

24555 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 (313) 562-8900 • countryinns.com/dearbornmi

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Stop by and see our new Detroit/Southgate location for yourself. You’ll see why travelers love Hampton, with amenities like our hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and our clean and fresh Hampton bed.

• Complimentary shuttle service to/from Henry Ford Museum and local venues • Easy access to businesses, Detroit attractions, malls, casinos, sports venues and restaurants • Indoor swimming pool and whirlpool

Hampton Inn Detroit/Southgate Michigan • Board room, meeting room and free business center 13555 Prechter Blvd. • Free hot breakfast Southgate, Michigan 48195 734.574.4000 • Free Internet access in every room www.detroitsouthgate.hamptoninn.com • Gym/fitness center use

Nice Place. Nice Price.®

® Featuring new NextGen design rooms!

Discover the newest Red Roof redesign in the Classic history flourishes at this country and the next generation of Red Roof former site of the Fort Pontchartrain. design and style. Redesigned in 2013, the hotel • Large, flat-screen TVs captures the nostalgia of its history n Complimentary airport with a contemporary style that is a transportation to/from hotel • Free Wi-Fi, local calls, long-distance calls in the continental standout in downtown Detroit. n U.S. and up to 10 fax pages in the continental U.S. • 367 guest rooms Indoor pool and spa — online reviews, Market Metrix, 2010 & 2011 • All rooms feature floor-to-ceiling n 24-hour Sheraton Fitness • #1 in Customer Satisfaction windows for beautiful views of • Superior King Rooms with large workstation, in-room n Sheraton Club Floor the riverfront or cityscape coffee, microwave and refrigerator • Complimentary Wi-Fi n Two restaurants, Cultivate • 24-hour fitness center and Connections • Free Redi-Set-Go breakfast • Valet parking only n • Children 17 and under stay free • Next door to People Mover station Complimentary Wi-Fi • Pets stay free • 15 minutes from The Henry Ford n Convenient expressway access • Top of the Pontch for fine dining to all of metropolitan Detroit and Starbucks Cafe and Ann Arbor Red Roof Detroit-Dearborn – #182 24130 Michigan Avenue • Dearborn, MI 48124 phone: 313.278.9732 TWO WASHINGTON BLVD 8000 Merriman Road DETROIT, MI 48226 Romulus, MI 48174 313.965.0200 734.729.2600 For reservations visit redroof.com or crowneplaza.com www.sheratondetroitmetroairport.com call 800.RED.ROOF (800.733.7663)

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You’ll want to reserve plenty of trunk space

Over 185 shopping, dining and entertainment options with more than 30 that can’t be found YOUR HENRY FORD EXPERIENCE anywhere else in Michigan. STARTS AT COURTYARD

Courtyard Detroit Dearborn helps you put more play in your stay. With our Bistro bar and media pods, newly renovated and tech Courtyard by Marriott enabled guest rooms, free WiFi, indoor pool Detroit Dearborn 5200 Drive and more, we’ll help you craft the ultimate Dearborn, MI 48126 getaway. Located just minutes from the (313) 271-1400 DearbornCourtyard.com Henry Ford and offering our very own Henry Ford Package, you’ll experience a weekend to remember.

Book your room or package by visiting DearbornCourtyard.com. IT’S A NEW STAY.

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5 minutes from The Henry Ford

Across the street from Ford Motor Company World Headquarters

Adjacent to mall

773 guest rooms, 27 suites and 62,000 square feet of meeting space

On-site Giulio & Sons Restaurant, Archimedes Lounge and Brew Coffee Shop

Complimentary parking, including motor coach

Complimentary high-speed Internet in all guest rooms, indoor pool and fitness center

Group rates available for 10 or more guest rooms at peak

600 Town Center Drive • Dearborn, MI 48126 • www.hotel-dearborn.com • 313.592.3622

5801 Southfield Freeway Detroit, MI 48228 Phone: 313-336-3340 Fax: 313-336-7037

The Perfect End to a Great Day The DoubleTree by Hilton Detroit-Dearborn is a distinctively designed hotel located minutes from The Henry Ford.

Enjoy all of the full-service features we have to offer, starting with the excellent cuisine in Grille 39, the indoor pool and state-of-the-art fitness facility, and our 12-passenger shuttle bus that will take you to and from The Henry Ford. Finish your evening relaxing in one of our signature Sweet Dreams beds.

Our hotel is consistently ranked in the top 10 for overall guest satisfaction.

Packages for The Henry Ford and assistance with group tour planning are available.

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DETROIT | 45 MONROE AVE. | +1-313-964-7625 join hardrockrewards.com HARDROCK.COM #THISISHARDROCK ©2015 Hard Rock International (USA), Inc. All rights reserved.

UNT2032DE15 Detroit The Henry Ford magazine_7x4.625.indd 1 11/13/15 9:35 AM thehenryford.org 71 Bright and spacious suites in the Detroit Livonia area. news feed Two tickets to two attractions Connect with us post Free continental breakfast @thehenryford Free wireless high speed internet Fully equipped kitchens engage pincheck in Rates starting at $149 Book online: Marriott.com/DTWTL followtweetlike Use promotion code ARN status friends status link Detroit Livonia | 17450 Fox Drive Livonia, MI 48152 | 734-542-7400 upload hashtag check in connectretweethashtag blog picture link tagfriendsnews feed retweet check in comment

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• Hot Breakfast Buffet • Social Gathering Reception • Complimentary Wi-Fi • 40” Flat-Screen TV • Business Center • The Pantry • Indoor Swimming Pool • Hot Tub • Courtyard with BBQ Pits, Living Room with Big-Screen TV • Extended Stay

24105 MICHIGAN AVE. • DEARBORN, MI 48124 • 313.565.1500 • STAYBRIDGESUITES.COM

thehenryford.org 73 local reTreaT 1700 General Motors Rd. Milford, MI, 48380 Sleep well and 626 acres of rolling hills, trees dream away in a and lakes that offer a wide range Westin Heavenly® of amenities for outdoor activity. Bed before you spend a day exploring at The n 20-, 30- and 50-amp RV campsites Henry Ford. n 2 beaches and 3 stocked fishing lakes n Heated pool with lifeguards To reserve n Laundromats your room, call 866-716-8104. n Extensive 7-day recreation program for kids n Paddle boat rentals and canteen food service n 27-hole championship Mystic Creek Golf Course & Banquet Center n Adventure golf n Resort-style cabins, rustic cabins and tent rentals

©2014 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Call 248.684.6000 Worldwide, Inc. for reservations. www.campdearborn.com

Great People. Great Camping.

DETROIT ·Private spring-fed lake and scenic forest setting GREENFIELD Large private beach and lakeside trails RV PARK · ·Excellent boating, fishing and swimming 6680 Bunton Road Ypsilanti, MI 48197 ·Long pull-thrus and full hookups + 50 amp Holiday weekend family events PHONE 734.482.7722 · FAX 734.544.5907 ·Just 35 miles from Detroit attractions

Plan your trip and make reservations at www.detroitgreenfield.com

BIShOP - BRIghTON BED & BREaKFaST 2709 BIDDLE ST., WYANDOTTE, MI 48192

• Located in historic Wyandotte approxi- mately ten miles from The Henry Ford® • Full gourmet breakfast each morning • Three guest rooms – two are suites suitable for families of four to six • TVs with DVD players in each room • Off-street parking behind our home

WWW.BISHOP-BRIGHTONBEDANDBREAKFAST.COM PHONE 734.284.7309

74 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 www.bishop-brightonbedandbreakfast.com (734) 284-7309 EXPERIENCE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THE HOLIDAY INN SOUTHGATE

n Area’s Largest Heated Indoor n Microwave, Refrigerator and Flat-Screen Hotel Pool and Whirlpool TVs in Every Room

n Award-Winning Charlie’s Chophouse n Next Door to the YMCA with Splash Park from Memorial Day Through Labor Day n Club Charlie’s Lounge with Big-Screen TVs and Live Entertainment on Weekends n 15 Minutes to The Henry Ford

n Full Hot and Cold Breakfast Buffet Included n Complimentary Shuttle Service with SOUTHGATE a Henry Ford Package Purchased n Kids 12 and Under Eat Free with BANQUET & CONFERENCE CENTER Paying Adult (Up to 4 Children) n 24/7 Airport Shuttle 17201 NORTHLINE RD., SOUTHGATE, MI n 734-283-4400 • WWW.HISOUTHGATE.COM Free Wi-Fi

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THE GAME LASTS NINE INNINGS.

THE MEMORIES LAST A LIFETIME. 9.75 in.

All this, and no airport screening.

Gaming, dancing, dining, concerts, a spa, 400 luxurious rooms. Everything you need for your escape is right here at MotorCity Casino Hotel. And it’s all just a few miles away from where you are right now.

866-STAY-MCC MotorCityCasino.com

A MILLION MILES AWAY, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.

For information on Detroit Tigers tickets and special group discounts

MotorCity Casino Hotel and MotorCity Casino Hotel design are trademarks of Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C. ©2016 Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

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All tickets must be pre-booked where you will select a day and time and you must arrive at that appointed time to guarantee entry. During peak periods there may be delays based on congestion inside the attraction.

LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations, the Minifigure and LEGOLAND are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2016 The LEGO Group.

Located just 2 miles from The Henry Ford

Each of our spacious deluxe rooms feature microwaves, refrigerators, HD flat-screen TVs, free high-speed Internet and local calls. Full complimentary hot breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, business center and whirlpool.

3600 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ALLEN PARK, MI. 48101

www.choicehotels.com/michigan/allen-park/quality-inn-hotels/mi463 • 313.323.3500

thehenryford.org 77 78 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 Detroiters have never stopped believing in ourselves or our city. With an infectious spirit of entrepreneurism, we continue to push towards our economic turnaround. Every day, more new businesses plant their roots in The D, including retailers Shinola®, Carhartt®, ™ and coming soon, Nike®. A walkable downtown, diverse eateries and new and renovated hotels have fostered an atmosphere and enthusiasm that’s contagious. We invite you to come see it — and believe it — for yourself. DISCOVER DETROIT, AMERICA’S GREAT COMEBACK CITY.

Shinola and Detroit Vegan Soul partners Kirsten Ussery and Erika Boyd.

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THE SOUPER DRESS No, this little number isn’t a masterpiece from Mr. Warhol, but the iconic artist was surely the inspiration for its recognizable print. Back in the mid to late ‘60s, disposable apparel made of paper was all the rage, and everyone was doing it, from paper towel producers and pie makers to Hallmark and the Campbell Soup Company. For a couple of Campbell’s veggie soup labels and one buck, you could mail order the Souper Dress. Too long? Just get your scissors and cut. Needs mending? Just grab the transparent tape, and pull, tear and repair. Stub- born stain? Just throw the dress away, tuck another dollar in an envelope and mail away for your next fashion fix. By 1968, the paper fashion fad had fizzled, and the polyester leisure suit was next in line to pop.

DID YOU KNOW? / Most paper dresses made in the ’60s were actually 93 percent cellulose and 7 percent nylon.

READ : Past, Present and Future by Jennifer Farley Gordon and Colleen Hillc

ONLINE See the Yellow Pages paper dress in The Henry Ford’s collections thehenryford.org/collectionsc

ONLINE Check out the ADCD Paper Fashion Show adcd.comc

ONLINE For a modern-day, homespun take on the paper dress, visit fashionbymayhem.comc

FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™ 80 JUNE-DECEMBER 2016 thehenryford.org PB THEY’RE NOT SPACESHIPS, BUT THEY WILL TAKE US INTO THE FUTURE.

SHELL ECO-MARATHON AMERICAS

Shell Eco-marathon is a global program that challenges high school and college student teams to design, build and test the most energy-efficient vehicles. With annual events in the Americas, Europe and Asia, this innovation competition pushes future scientists and engineers to travel the farthest distance using the least amount of energy. Student-built vehicles have achieved more than 3,500 miles per gallon in the Americas challenge.

Shell Eco-marathon Americas takes place on the streets of Downtown Detroit and is free and open to the public.

Get more information at shellecomarathon.us #SEM2016

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