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Curated Video
The Elevator Pitch
Billy walks Cassie through the steps to preparing the perfect elevator pitch!
The Art Assignment
Make art like someone you admire. | Peggy and Garry Noland | The Art Assignment
Who are your influences? Who’s asking? Peggy Noland, a fashion designer, and Garry Noland, an artist who happens to be her father. We visit Peggy's shop in Kansas City, Missouri, and she and her dad give us the assignment to make an...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Student-Built Space Hardware
Bob Zeek and Stacy Hale talk about how students can build and fly hardware to the International Space Station as part of a program called HUNCH. Students in over two hundred schools across the country are doing hardware manufacturing,...
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Sewing for Spaceflight
Sewing machines, tape, scissors. Just like you might visit a tailor to get your pants hemmed or your suit fitted, NASA calls on a group of very creative problem-solvers to custom-make protective shields for our space missions.
TED-Ed
How the Bra Was Invented
Ida Rosenthal, her husband William, and her business partner came up with the idea and design of the first brassiere. View a brief video that explains how the design came to be.
TED-Ed
Forget Shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes
Zounds! 3-D printed clothes? With the advent of 3-D printers, the unimaginable has become the manageable. Check out these clothes, designed by Danit Peleg, and created on a 3-D printer.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Poiret, Paris
In this video [2:35] Met curator Harold Koda on the genius of design in Paul Poiret's Paris, 1919. This garment was made of a single piece of material and had only one seam.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mc Queen, Spring/summer 1999 Collection, "No. 13"
This video [2:37] is Met curator Andrew Bolton on extreme fashion in Alexander McQueen's No. 13 [Collection], spring/summer 1999. This outfit would never be worn by a person except on the runway. It was probably meant to be more of a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Shawl, Designed by Deneirouse and Boisglavy
In this video [2:52] Met curator Melinda Watt on beauty and technology in Shawl, designed by Deneirouse and Boisglavy, c. 1849.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: James, Evening Dress
In this video [2:55] Met curator Jan Glier Reeder on the element of surprise in Charles James's Evening Dress, 1946. Charles James produced some of the most memorable garments ever made. A master of the relationship between form, color...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Costumes
This video is an overview of the process Imagineers at Disney go through to design costumes for characters and workers. [5:26]