LSU Textile & Costume Museum to show work by Louisiana fashion legend Geoffrey Beene

The LSU Textile & Costume Museum in the Human Ecology Building, 330 Tower Drive, will open “Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene,” with a reception from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 5.

The show runs through Jan. 24 and features work by the Haynesville native who became a legend of American fashion design. Beene won eight Coty Awards and two Council of American Fashion Designers awards in his 40-year career.

This retrospective exhibition features the collection of Sylvia R. Karasu, which includes garments from the 1960s through the early 2000s, supplemented with fashion sketches.

Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday 2-4 p.m. the first Sunday of each month from 2-4 p.m. Admission is free.

The parking lot behind the Human Ecology Building is temporarily closed due to construction crews working on adjacent buildings. Visitors to the museum will need to park on nearby streets or in the Barnes and Noble parking garage one block away on Highland Road.