Mount Mary Student and SSND Designs

Model wearing a dress designed by student Barb Newby. The dress is featured in the Digital Fashion Archive, Object ID #2005.03.03.

Source: Arches 1970 (Mount Mary College yearbook), School Sisters of Notre Dame North American Archives

Mount Mary's Fashion Archive contains many works designed by students, alumnae, the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), and other faculty who taught at Mount Mary. This collection highlights unique pieces designed between the mid-1950s and 2010, showcasing the couture techniques taught in the program's early years.

It includes garments designed by noted fashion program alumnae Karen Davidson and Donna Ricco, and by Sister Remy Revor, who taught in the art program for decades. Also included is a famous dress designed by Sister Aloyse Hessburg, founder of Mount Mary's fashion program, and worn by United States Senator Chuck Robb's mother, Frances Howard Robb, when he married Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, in 1967.