The Hollywood actress Glenn Close began collecting the costumes she wore in her movies after wrapping her very first film, The World According to Garp (1982), for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Since then, Close has amassed a collection of 800 pieces— gowns, suits, jewelry, shoes, and other accessories—from her decades-long career.
Fifty of Close’s most recognizable ensembles are now on view at Savannah’s Telfair Museums, including pieces from movies like Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Stepford Wives (2004), Albert Nobbs (2011), and 101 Dalmatians (1996).
A version of the show was on view in 2020 at Indiana University’s Eskenazi Museum of Art; Close donated to collection to the university’s Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection in 2017. Close chose IU for her collection after visiting the school, where she got to tour the library facilities and meet the curators and archivists who would be managing her costume collection.
Below are images from “The Art of the Character: Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection,” on view at the Telfair Museums in Savannah through February 15, 2026.
