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  • Elinor Carucci: The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  • Elinor Carucci was recently commissioned by TIME to photograph the collection of collars that had become a celebrated and distinguishing feature of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over the course of her remarkable career.

     

    Carucci was granted special access to a selection of Ginsburg's most cherished collars at the Supreme Court. Her images were published alongside details about each collar from Ginsburg's family, in a feature titled, "Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them," by Tessa Berenson.

     

    As Berenson writes, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a trailblazing feminist who enshrined equal protections for women into the law….


    Over time, Ginsburg's collars came to symbolize more than just a long-overdue feminine energy on the Supreme Court. To her, each one developed a special significance. The style of the collar sometimes reflected the substance of her work; perhaps most famously, the liberal Ginsburg often wore a bejeweled collar that looked like armor on days she dissented."

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      Pride Collar (2016), 2020
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      Husband Marty Ginsburg's words, "It’s not sacrifice, it’s family", 2020
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    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg RBG court collar, by Elinor Carucci
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      Court Collar, 2020
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      Final Term and Lying in State at the Capitol, September, 2020
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      South American Collar: the last collar Ginsburg wore in her lifetime, at a wedding she officiated on August 30, 2020
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      Early in Ginsburg's time on the Supreme Court, 2020
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      University of Hawaii Jurist in Residence Collar (2017), 2020
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      South African Collar: Ginsburg's favorite collar, worn in her official portrait, 2020
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      Majority Collar, 2020
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      One of Ginsburg’s Original Lace Jabots, 2020
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      International Women’s Forum at the New Mexico Supreme Court Collar, 2020
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      Collar worn in official photo of all nine justices after Justice Kavanaugh joined the Court (2018), 2020
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