August 17, 2016

In 1969, Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco (née Grace Kelly of Philadelphia) donates a coral-encrusted raffia gown designed by Hubert de Givenchy to Drexel, where it is a cherished holding of the University’s historic costume collection. The collection started in 1898 as part of the Drexel Institute’s original museum and has grown into an internationally recognized holding of nearly 14,000 garments, textiles and objects of dress, known since 2014 as the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection and housed in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.