Apr 27
This striking colour portrait captures Judy Garland on April 23, 1961, the night she delivered a 27-song tour de force that won five Grammy Awards and spent 73 weeks on the Billboard charts. For the second half of the show, she wore a heavily hand-stitched, glittering jacket made of sequins, rhinestones, and bugle beads.
Judy considered it her ultimate good-luck charm. Following her passing, the jacket vanished into private collections for decades. Recently, thanks to a massive crowdfunding effort by over 700 donors, Carnegie Hall officially acquired the jacket. Now fully restored by the craftspeople at F.I.T., it has been returned to the venue for a permanent place of honour in the Rose Museum
