More than a year after Mary McFadden’s death, the designer ’s work is being spotlighted via two different initiatives.

On Saturday, some of McFadden’s jewels were officially unveiled through a donation to the museum in Chestnut Hill, Pa., that is known simply as Woodmere. And earlier this month, the majority of her archive was moved to the Pratt Institute.

McFadden, an inveterate traveler whose collections were often inspired by ancient civilizations, and cultural and historical references, died Sept. 13, 2024, at the age of 85.

The New York school said that the Mary McFadden fashion archive has officially relocated to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus in the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center. Prior to her death, the designer had established her namesake archive at Drexel University in Phi

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