Photograph of drag artist Richard D. Curtin standing with a large print-out of him as his drag persona "Edna Jean," taken in his studio-warehouse in Dallas on August 22, 2022, as part of an exploratory visit where UNT Special Collections and Texas Fashion Collection staff reviewed his holdings.

Photograph of Richard D. Curtin standing next to a portrait of him as one of his drag personas, taken in his studio-warehouse in Dallas on August 22, 2022, as part of an exploratory visit where UNT Special Collections and Texas Fashion Collection staff reviewed his holdings.

Photograph of the top of a skirt covered in faux flowers and a photograph in a bag, taken in his studio-warehouse in Dallas on August 22, 2022, as part of an exploratory visit where UNT Special Collections and Texas Fashion Collection staff reviewed his holdings.

Photograph of a garment, bag, and photograph of Richard D. Curtin as his drag persona "Edna Jean," taken in his studio-warehouse in Dallas on August 22, 2022, as part of an exploratory visit where UNT Special Collections and Texas Fashion Collection staff reviewed his holdings.

Photograph of Richard D. Curtin and UNT Texas Fashion Collection director Annette Becker, taken in his studio-warehouse in Dallas on August 22, 2022, as part of an exploratory visit where UNT Special Collections and Texas Fashion Collection staff reviewed his holdings.

Image of an August 27, 2023 tweet by WFAA and Dallas-based meteorologist Pete Delkus showing the daily temperatures for August 2023. That month was the hottest on record in the Dallas Fort Worth area and broke a number of daily heat records for the county.

Photograph of materials that a UNT College of Visual Arts & Design art history course taught by Dr. Denise Baxter highlighted in a session at the Texas Fashion Collection Westheimer Research Gallery in the UNT Art Building. Materials highlighted include (left to right): 2012 dress by UNT fashion design alum Michael Faircloth, 1988 dress by Arnold Scaasi, 2012 dress by Mary Katrantzou, corset by Vivienne Westwood, eighteenth-century coat, and a 2022 robe by Kehinde Wiley.

Photograph of a UNT College of Visual Arts & Design art history students learning from Dr. Denise Baxter in the Texas Fashion Collection Westheimer Research Gallery in the UNT Art Building. The course met on and focused on artifacts by Kehinde Wiley (robe in the background), dresses by Michael Faircloth and Arnold Scaasi (blue and pink dresses in background), Vivienne Westwood (corset on table), and eighteenth-century. menswear (hanging in compact storage).

Photograph of a UNT College of Visual Arts & Design art history student making notes about an Arnold Scaasi dress and a Michael Faircloth dress housed in the Texas Fashion Collection Westheimer Research Gallery in the UNT Art Building. The student conducted this research as part of Denise Baxter's course.

Photograph of a UNT College of Visual Arts & Design art history students learning from Dr. Denise Baxter in the Texas Fashion Collection Westheimer Research Gallery in the UNT Art Building. The course met on and focused on artifacts by Kehinde Wiley (robe in the background), dresses by Michael Faircloth and Arnold Scaasi (blue and pink dresses in background), Vivienne Westwood (corset on table), and eighteenth-century. menswear (hanging in compact storage).

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection director and UNT College of Visual Arts and Design fashion design professor Myra Walker.

Photograph of students posing for photos with artist Ugo Serrano.

Photograph of artist Ugo Serrano speaking to a History of Fashion undergraduate course.

Flyer sharing information about the Master of Heavy Metal artist lecture featuring Ugo Serrano.

Photograph of artist Ugo Serrano and TFC director and fashion design faculty member Myra Walker.

Photograph of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design's Texas Fashion Collection holdings being photographed as part of collection digitization, here executed by undergraduate photography student and TFC student photographer Andrew Jones and undergraduate fashion student and TFC student assistant Annie Puga on August 8, 2023, in the Westheimer Student Research Gallery in the UNT Art Building.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection assistant director Dawn Figueroa, collection manager Edward Hoyenski, and director Myra Walker at the Galleria in Dallas for an opening event for the exhibition "RED Bull Art of Can."

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker with students at the Galleria in Dallas for an opening event for the exhibition "RED Bull Art of Can."

Photograph of a late 1960s leather fringe vest from the Texas Fashion Collection on view in an exhibition "Texas International Pop Festival: 50 Years Later" which was organized by the Denton County Office of History and Culture and displayed at the Lewisville Grand Theater in Lewisville, Texas.

Photograph of a late 1960s leather fringe vest, archival images and labels on view in an exhibition "Texas International Pop Festival: 50 Years Later" which was organized by the Denton County Office of History and Culture and displayed at the Lewisville Grand Theater in Lewisville, Texas.

Photograph of the UNT Texas Fashion Collection exhibition "Sportswear to Athleisure: The Creation of Comfortable Clothing" being installed in the UNT ArtSpace Gallery in the UNT System Building in downtown Dallas. In the image, volunteer Gloria Devonshire adjusts the lighting over a series of mannequins.

Photograph of the UNT Texas Fashion Collection exhibition "Sportswear to Athleisure: The Creation of Comfortable Clothing" being installed in the UNT ArtSpace Gallery in the UNT System Building in downtown Dallas. In the image, UNT College of Visual Arts and Design fashion design graduate student and TFC graduate assistant Krissi Riewe works to mount a Carolyn Schnurer dress.

Photograph of the UNT Texas Fashion Collection exhibition "Sportswear to Athleisure: The Creation of Comfortable Clothing" installed in the UNT ArtSpace Gallery in the UNT System Building in downtown Dallas.

Photograph of the silhouettes of five garments mounted on mannequins in front of a window. The Texas Fashion Collection staff and contractors installed the exhibition "Sportswear to Athleisure: The Creation of Comfortable Clothing" in the UNT ArtSpace gallery in the UNT System Building in downtown Dallas.