Current Exhibitions

The FIDM Museum is proud to present the twentieth anniversary Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition. Celebrating the art and industry of costume designers, this exhibition will present more than 100 costumes from twenty films released in 2011.

The exhibition includes selected costumes from all five 2011 Academy Award® Nominees for Costume Design: W/E, Hugo, Jane Eyre, The Artist, and Anonymous. Highlighted in the exhibition is the previous year’s Academy Award® winner for Costume Design, Alice in Wonderland. A gown from Alice in Wonderland will greet visitors as they enter the galleries.

The exhibition also showcases classic film costumes from the FIDM Museum collection and the Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles, Historic Hollywood Collection. Some of these same costumes were featured during the first Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition in 1993.

Group tours are available. For information on tours, please visit How To Book a Tour.

The FIDM Museum is delighted to present an exceptional collection of fragrance, cosmetics, and ephemera from the house of Lucien Lelong. This group of objects was graciously donated by Monique Fink, wife of artist Peter Fink, who worked for Monsieur Lelong as package designer and interior decorator. Mr. Fink went on to discover the camera, becoming a reputable photographer and artist of the twentieth century.

The Fink donation is one to be admired, offering a new perspective on a brand that has been in business for nearly one hundred years. Through rough sketches of bottles and mock advertisements for campaigns, the public has the unique opportunity to go behind-the-scenes of Parfums Lucien Lelong.

Parfums Lucien Lelong was established in 1924 and continued as a business after the couture house closed in 1949. Lelong was one of the early couture designers who utilized his dominance over the fashion world by expanding into the fragrance industry. Lelong felt that fragrance was an essential part of a woman’s distinct style and should be treated as the accessory that completes her look. This installation covers three decades of multiple fragrances, revealing the aesthetic and creative scope of a remarkable fashion brand.