Museum Retrospectives About Arnold Scaasi
In 2001, The Kent State University Museum mounted a major retrospective about Arnold Scaasi that was curated by Anne Bissonnette to celebrate the museum's fifteenth anniversary. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired in 2009 more than 100 couture designs by Arnold Scaasi and his paper and video archives, including sketchbooks from his collections from 1958 to the early 1990s, and all of his press clippings. A major exhibition of some of those clothes was shown in 2010 at the MFA in an exhibit called Scaasi: American Couturier, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. The MFA's Scaasi collection includes the famous sequined pants outfit that was worn by Barbra Streisand in 1969 when she won the Oscar for the movie Funny Girl, along with stage costumes worn in her early concerts, a fur ensemble worn on her famous trip to Canada in 1970, and costumes worn in On a Clear Day. The collection also contains designs worn by Aretha Franklin, Mary Tyler Moore, Diahann Carroll, Arlene Francis, Joan Sutherland, Joan Rivers, Louise Nevelson and numerous other socialites from New York and Palm Beach. Other museums with holdings of Arnold Scaasi designs in their collection are the Historical Society of Palm Beach County located in West Palm Beach, FL; and at the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, FL, as well as FIT.
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