General:
Esquevin, Christian. Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label. New York: Monacelli Press, 2008.
Designers Series. The Eleanor Lambert Collection, 1943-2003. Gladys M. Marcus Library, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Horyn, Cathy. “Silver Screen to Mezzanine: His Designs Were For All. The New York Times, April 30, 2002.
Kinsey, Sally Buchanan. “Gilbert Adrian: Creating the Hollywood Dream Style.” Fiber Arts, no. 3 (May/June 1987): 48–50.
Riley, Robert. “Adrian.” In American Fashion: The Life and Lines of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, and Trigère, edited by Sarah Lee, 3–107. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1975.
Milbank, Caroline Rennolds. “Adrian.” In Couture, the Great Designers, 204–211. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1985.
Palomo-Lovinski, Noël. Adrían: The Artistry of Adrian: Hollywood's Celebrated Design Innovator. [Kent, OH]: Kent State University, 2002.
Reilly, Maureen. “Adrian: The Lion of MGM.” In California Couture, 11–66. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. Ltd, 2000.
Simms, Joseph. “Adrian, American Artist and Designer.” Costume, no. 8 (1974): 13–17.
Primary Sources:
“Adrian: A New Hand in the American Couture.” Vogue, March 15, 1942.
Adrian. “Do American Women Want American Clothes?” Harper’s Bazaar, February 1934.
Merkel, Helen. "Adrian Talks of Gowns—and of Goats." The New York Times, May 27, 1945.
Film Costume Design:
Berry, Sarah. Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Evans, Caroline. “Wanting to Wear Seeing: Gilbert Adrian at MGM.” In Fashion in Film, edited by Adrienne Munich, 135–159. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011.
Gutner, Howard. Gowns by Adrian: The MGM Years 1928-1941. New York: H. N. Abrams, 2001.
Lorberfeld, Rebecca. “Adrian: The Art & Craft of Motion Picture Costume Design, 1925–1941.” MA thesis: Fashion Institute of Technology, 1994.
Hall, Martha. “Analysis and characterization of "Gowns by Adrian": the costume design aesthetic and philosophy of Gilbert Adrian, 1928–1941.” MA thesis, University of Delaware, 2013. http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/12697.
Related Exhibitions and Events:
Adrian exhibition papers, 1920-1970 (bulk 1970–1972). Gladys M. Marcus Library, Fashion Institute of Technology. [Exhibition at the Museum at FIT, 1971.]
“Adrian [installation photos, wall texts] : American Glamour.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16028coll1/id/23108. [Exhibition at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 14–August 18, 2002.]
Adrian: The Couture Years, 1942-52. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995. [Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 17, 1995–January 7, 1996.]
Exhibition of American Fashions and Fabrics. New York: American Enka Corporation, 1945. [Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March–April, 1945.]
Textiles and Textile Designers:
“Art into Living: Silk Prints, 1947.” ArtNews, January 1947.
Felsher, Lynn. “Wesley Simpson: Designer, Stylist and Entrepreneur” (paper presented at the 8th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Northampton, Massachusetts September 26–28, 2002, Northampton, Massachusetts). http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/383.
Frost, Rosamund. “Silk in Search of Six Painters: The Story of Onondaga’s New Design.” ArtNews, January 1947.
Kerry, Sue. Twentieth Century Textiles, Part II. London: Francesca Galloway, 2007.
Raynor, Geoffrey, Richard Chamberlain, and Annamarie Stapleton. Artists’ Textiles: Artist Designed Textiles 1940–1976. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012.
Robertson, Nancy. “Pola Stout: The American Rodier.” Unpublished paper, 2016.
Tom Two Arrows Collection. Albany Institute of History and Art.
The Wesley Simpson Custom Fabrics, Inc. Swatch Book Archive, 1898–1950. New York Public Library.
World War II Fashion and Textile Regulations:
Hannon, Laura Bellew. “The Stylish Battle: WWII and Clothing Design Restriction in Los Angeles.” PhD diss., University of California Riverside, 2012.
Soohoo, Pamela. “Fashions for Victory.” MA thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, 2004.