ASU FIDM Museum

ASU FIDM Museum featured two celebrated exhibitions during the 2023-24 academic year. The “Poor Things” exhibition invited guests to experience the costumes from the 2023 Searchlight Pictures film of the same name, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, written by Tony McNamara and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott and Jerrod Carmichael. The exhibition showcased the film’s unique, hand-crafted costumes created by costume designer Holly Waddington, who gave ASU FIDM students a special tour of the show and spent time answering their questions. The “Art of Costume Design in Film” exhibition featured the best costumes from a variety of films released in 2023, including all five Academy Award nominees for costume design: “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Napoleon” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” 

‘Living dress’

Elena Marshall, a fashion design major at ASU FIDM, won the Eco-Chic Design Contest and Showcase, a student-run event that featured sustainable fashion designs made by eight ASU students. The award-winning ‘living dress’ is a chic design with a strapless bodice and flouncy skirt, is made of recycled burlap and trimmed with real grass from chia seeds.  Learn more.

Outstanding designs at LA Memorial Coliseum photo by: Imagery by Oscar 

‘Living dress’ photo by EJ Hernandez

ASU FIDM Museum photo by Brian Davis

Fashion and engineering photo by Charlie Leight

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