Sandy Schreier

Sandy Schreier is an American fashion historian and collector of couture clothing, with over 15,000 items. She has been called "the world's largest private collector of couture clothing". Her interest in fashion began as a child when she went with her father, a furrier, to the Russeks department store where he worked. She has lent items from her collection to museums around the world but does not reveal where her collection is stored in order not to upset her insurers.

Early life Schreier was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of three daughters of Edward and Molly Miller. In the 1930s, Russeks relocated him to Detroit when they opened a new store there.

Fashion collector and historian In 2012, Schreier owned about 15,000 items of couture clothing, including "gowns, bags and shoes, muffs, lingerie and even designer sketches".

Her collection includes three Valentino outfits owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the Yves Saint Laurent trouser suit worn by Claudia Cardinale in the 1964 film The Pink Panther and the silver-mesh Roberto Rojas mini worn by Twiggy in a 1967 Richard Avedon photo.

The precise location of the warehouse where she stores the clothes is not disclosed, as "her insurance company could get cranky".

In 2019, Schreier made a promised gift of a portion of her collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The promised gifts were featured in The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibit, In Pursuit of Fashion, The Sandy Schreier Collection. The catalog was written by Andrew Bolton

Publications Schreier has written two books:

Personal life She was married to Sherwin Schreier, a lawyer and her "high school sweetheart" who she had been with since she was 13, and they had four children. He died on November 22, 2014, aged 78, from cancer.