Meet Robin Pavlosky
Fashion Museum Curator
Up Close and Personal
Rachel: What were you like when you were a girl. What did you like to do?
Robin: I liked to draw. I liked to sew. I liked to do crafts. I loved to make things with my hands. I liked doing embroidery and making doll clothes. I even cut up some of my mother's clothes to make other clothes. (It's not something I'd recommend girls do! It wasn't such a good idea.) But I loved to do anything I could that was creative.
Rachel: Do you have any role models? Who do you turn to for inspiration?
Robin: I have a number of role models. Most of them are people like [movie costume designer] Edith Head
who was my number one role model since I was old enough to know who she was. I admire people who have gotten through and fought their way through the movie industry. I look up to people like [actress] Katherine Hepburn who really was the first woman to be able to control her own roles and be her own boss. She made sure that she was treated equally. She was very powerful and instrumental in allowing women in the entertainment industry to set their own goals and to set their own price.
Rachel: What are your hobbies?
Robin: My hobbies and my profession, at this point, have grown together. Costuming is my hobby and it's been an overwhelming influence in my life. My hobby is recreating costumes, historical costumes usually. I also research and recreate the historical techniques used to make those costumes.
Rachel: What do you like to do with
your girlfriends?
Robin: Make costumes.
Rachel: What are some of the recent costume projects that you've worked on?
Robin: I just finished working on a major project which was a set of 20 some odd costumes for the World Science Fiction Convention costume competition. It was a large group of wedding costumes, basically, based on "The Lensmen" science fiction books from the 1940's [by E.E. "Doc" Smith].
Rachel: What's your all-time favorite costume movie?
Robin: I have a list of them about a mile and a half long. "Gone with the Wind" probably is number one. "The Heiress", [Zefferelli's] "Romeo and Juliet", "Restoration", "Sense and Sensibility", "Dangerous Liaisons," recently. There are a lot of good costume movies out there. Pick a time period you like. You can probably find a good costume movie for it.
Rachel: What's your family like?
Robin: I have one brother who is a computer sales engineer. My father is an actor and my mother is a librarian. So I come across this job naturally.
Rachel: What's your favorite food or treat?
Robin: Chocolate. Chocolate anything, [especially] chocolate cheesecake.
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