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Awards: 

  • Vogue Fashions America Does Best, 1938

  • Neiman Marcus Award, 1950

  • The Coty Fashion Critics Award, 1950

  • The Sporting Look Award, Sports Illustrated, 1958

  • Philadelphia Museum College of Art Citation, 1959

  • Woolknit Associates Design Award, 1959

  • The Coty American Fashion Critics Award, 1960

  • Lord & Taylor Salute for Creative Contributions to American Design, 1960

  • Woolknit Associated Design Award for Special Achievement, 1961

  • The Lighthouse for the Blind Award, 1961

  • The Coty American Fashion Critics Special Award, 1961

  • Sports Illustrated Award, 1963

  • The Detroit Business Association National Award, 1963

  • The London Sunday Times International Fashion Award, 1964

  • The Lighthouse for the Blind Award, 1967


  • Moscow International Fashion Award, 1967

  • The Coty Fashion Critics Award, 1968

  • Leather Industries American Handbag Designer Award, 1968

  • The Kaufmann Fashion Award, 1968

  • Saks Fifth Avenue, The Creator Citation, 1969

  • The Mount Mary Golden Needle Award, 1970

  • The Coty American Fashion Critics Hall of Fame Award, 1972

  • I. Magnin’s Great American Award, 1974

  • The American Fashion Award for Furs, 1975

  • Drexel University Citation, 1976

  • Leather Industries American Handbag Designer Award, 1976

  • Woolknit Associates Design Award, 1980

  • Fashion Group Foundation Certificate, 1981

  • Rhode Island School of Design President’s Fellow Award, 1985

  • Fashion Walk of Fame, 2001

Exhibitions: 

  • “Director’s Choice”  Philadelphia Museum College of Art, 1961

  • “A Bonnie Cashin Living Sketchbook” Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1962

  • (untitled exhibition of Cashin’s drawings) Time-Life, London, 1966

  • “The Art of Fashion” The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967-1968

  • “Made With Paper,” The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1967-1968

  • “Sporting Life” The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972

  • “Suiting Everyone” Smithsonian Institution, 1974

  • “Bonnie Cashin Retrospective” Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1976

  • “American Designer Show” Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1978

  • “Women Designers” Fashion Institute of Technology, 1981

  • “An American Fashion Institution: Designer Bonnie Cashin” Shippensburg State University, 1982

  • “Meet Bonnie Cashin: Clothes for the Twentieth Century” State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1984-1985

  • “American Style: Masterpieces of Fashion, 1880-1968” Rhode Island School of Design, 1986

  • “So, You Want to be in Pictures: Ready-to-Wear by Hollywood Designers” Cincinnati Art Museum, 1987

  • “Her Works Praise Her: Women as Inventors” Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1988

  • “Dressing the Part: Costume Sketches for Hollywood Films” Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1989

  • “Bonnie Cashin: Form Follows Function” Mount Mary College, 1991

  • “Paper Clothes: 1966-1991” Fashion Institute of Technology, 1991

  • “In Black and White: Dress from the 1920s to Today” Ohio State University, 1992

  • “Reel to Real: The Hollywood Designer After Film” Ohio State University, 1993-1994

  • “Stipelman: His illustrations and the Fashions they Reflect” Ohio State University, 1996

  • “Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style” Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-1998

  • “American Ingenuity” The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998

  • “Designing Women: American Style 1940-1960” Wadsworth Atheneum, 1998

  • “Japonsim in Fashion: Japan Dresses the West” Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998-1999

  • “Bonnie Cashin: Practical Dreamer” Fashion Institute of Technology, 2000-2001

  • “Way Haute West” Phoenix Art Museum, 2000-2001

  • “Bonnie Cashin: 60 Years and in the '60s," Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 2001

  • “Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference” The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 2000-2001

  • “Bonnie Cashin: An Elegant Solution” Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota, 2003

  • “Seventh Avenue: Fashion Walk of Fame” Fashion Institute of Technology, 2003-2004

  • “Chic is Where You Find It” UCLA, 2003-2004

  • “Bonnie Cashin: A Classic American Sportswear Designer” Shippensburg State University, 2004

  • “The Artful Line: Drawings and Prints from FIT’s Special Collections” Fashion Institute of Technology, 2004

  • “Furnishing Fashion: Material Connections in Twentieth-Century Design” The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2004

  • “Bonnie Cashin Plus Six” Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, 2007

  • “Inside the Designer’s Studio: Bonnie Cashin” Drexel University, 2007

  • "American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion," The Museum at FIT, 2009-2010

  • "High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection," Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2014

  • "Kimono: A Modern History," The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015

  • "Denim: Fashion's Frontier," The Museum at FIT, 2016

  • "Pockets to Purses," The Museum at FIT, 2018

  • "Bonnie Cashin Pop-Up," Cincinnati Art Museum, 2019

  • 'Functional Fashions," Milwaukee Art Museum, 2019

  • "Passer-by," Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, 2019

  • "Made It: The Women who Revolutionized Fashion," Peabody Essex Museum, 2020

  • "An Eye for Elegance: Carrie Marcus Neiman and the Women Who Shaped Neiman Marcus," Southern Methodist University, 2021-2022

  • "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion," The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021-2022

  • "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022

  • "New York: 1962-1964,"  The Jewish Museum, 2022 

  • "Designing Women: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors," The Museum at FIT, 2022-2023 

  • "Food & Fashion," The Museum at FIT, 2023

  • "A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes," The Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt,2023-2024

  • "Women Dressing Women," The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023-2024

Endowed Programs: 

  • The James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program (The Michelin Lectures), Caltech

  • Bonnie Cashin Prize for Imaginative Thinking, Caltech

  • The Innovative Design Fund (defunct)

  • The Bonnie Cashin Endowed Fund for Study Abroad, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

  • The Bonnie Cashin Lecture Series and Archive, UCLA

  • The Bonnie Cashin Fund at the New York Community Trust

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