Alumna’s reward will completely elevate studying and analysis alternatives at UGA
Acclaimed bridal designer Anne Barge Clegg pledged a serious reward to the College of Georgia that may improve the School of Household and Shopper Sciences’ Historic Clothes and Textile Assortment, housed on the UGA Particular Collections Libraries.
Anne Barge Clegg speaks throughout a go to to the College of Georgia in March.
In honor of Clegg’s reward, the college will title the gathering the Anne Barge Historic Clothes and Textile Assortment. The gathering consists of round 3,000 objects, together with clothes, equipment and textiles courting from the 1800s to current day. Clegg’s reward was introduced at an Oct. 8 occasion in New York Metropolis honoring her profession.
“Anne’s generosity is immense and far-reaching, and we’re grateful for her deep dedication to serving to UGA college students’ goals come true,” mentioned Jill S. Walton, UGA vp for growth and alumni relations. “Her reward ensures that generations of scholars will have the ability to profit from the invaluable information contained inside the assortment that may proudly bear her title.”
Clegg, a local of Cordele, earned an artwork schooling diploma from UGA in 1969 and moved to Boston, the place she developed her expertise on the legendary boutique Priscilla of Boston. She went on to open her personal retailer, Anne Barge For Brides, in Atlanta and ran it for 13 years earlier than promoting to Kleinfeld, of “Say Sure to the Costume” fame. In 1999, she launched the Anne Barge label, which has earned worldwide fame over its 25 years.
“My years on the College of Georgia had been instrumental in fulfilling my lifelong dream of turning into a bridal designer,” mentioned Clegg. “This historic clothes assortment supplies a uncommon hands-on useful resource for UGA college students to analysis clothes developments and particulars of design, and it grants them entry to quite a few examples from historical past.
“My assist to completely protect this assortment is made with hopes of inspiring college students on their very own journeys to satisfy their goals and making ready them for alternatives on the earth of trend.”
Anne Barge Clegg speaks to a category within the School of Household and Shopper Sciences in March.
The gathering is an important instructing and analysis asset for the School of Household and Shopper Sciences, and UGA Libraries’ Particular Collections Libraries will protect and show the gathering. Clegg’s reward will present assist for each entities, funding the bodily care, group and preservation of the gathering in addition to offering assets to rent workers who will oversee the gathering.
Additionally included in Clegg’s pledge is a designation to determine the Jean Williams Help Fund. Williams was Clegg’s aunt, a UGA artwork schooling college member and a sculptor. Clegg donated a number of of her aunt’s sculptures to the Lamar Dodd Faculty of Artwork, and the brand new fund will present for the upkeep and restoration of the items — which might be on show on the faculty and on UGA’s Cortona campus, the place Williams developed her love of sculpting. The fund can even assist Dodd college instructing in Cortona.
An exhibit of clothes and supplies donated by Clegg, which are actually part of the gathering, might be on show on the Particular Collections Libraries within the latter half of 2026.
