Norma Kamali’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Farrah Fawcett's suit was donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2011. She is one of several designers credited with popularizing the shoulder pad in womenswear in the 1980s and played a prominent role in adapting exaggerated shoulder pads to casual clothes at the beginning of the eighties shoulder-pad era in 1978.