UPCOMING EXHIBITION ALERT
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Image: Sonia Delaunay, hand colored print of four women in patterned dresses from the book Sonia Delaunay: ses peintures, ses objets, ses tissus simultanés, ses modes, 1925, France © Pracusa 20251024.
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Art X Fashion, opening February 18, 2026, will look at the entangled and shifting relationship will look at the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion – typically considered a "decorative" or "applied" art. Organized by Dr. Elizabeth Way, curator of costume and accessories, this exhibition will feature 140 garments, textiles, and accessories from MFIT's permanent collection, and we invite viewers to consider the much-asked question, "Is fashion art?" through historic and contemporary examples. Learn more.
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MFIT's 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today is traveling to Mexico City. Over 80 objects from designers and private collectors will be on view from December 11, 2025 - April 12, 2026 at the Museo Franz Mayer. Learn more about this special collaboration on our news page.
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STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
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Drop into the MFIT lobby to see All Things Considered, FIT’s Junior photography exhibition. On display are photo-based installations by 63 students from the Photography and Related Media BFA. Ranging from documentary to narrative to the conceptual, the students' work reflects the skills they have learned, including digital and analog still photography, lighting, composition, color theory, and digital post-production. Visit today.
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FEATURED PRESS
'Fashion exposes people's desires and anxieties': how much do we really reveal when we get dressed? Read the Guardian review of Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis.
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DECEMBER PODCAST
This month's Fashion Culture Podcast highlights a conversation about "Fashion Design in Colombia" with Lia Samantha Lozano, a pioneer of Afro-Colombian fashion, and professor Dr. Tamara J. Walker, associate professor of Africana studies at Barnard College. Listen in today.
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CURRENT | DRESS, DREAMS, AND DESIRE: FASHION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
September 10, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Lower Gallery
This exhibition, curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, explores the complex relationship between fashion and psychoanalysis. Steele has spent more than five years working on this exhibition and the accompanying book, which draws on the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas about sexuality and the unconscious, with sections devoted to themes such as the mirror stage, the skin ego, desire, and sexual difference. Learn more.
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CURRENT | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
November 22, 2025 – January 4, 2026
MFIT Lobby
The Photography and Related Media BFA junior exhibition, All Things Considered, showcases photo-based installations from 63 students that range from the documentation of intimate life to directed staged narrative tableaus, to visual representations of conceptual ideas. This scope of work reflects contemporary trends in fine art photography, showcasing individual creative vision, while illuminating the time and place we all inhabit. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | ART X FASHION
February 18 – April 19, 2026
Lower Gallery
Art X Fashion will look at the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion – typically considered a "decorative" or "applied" art. Organized by Dr. Elizabeth Way, curator of costume and accessories, this exhibition will feature 140 garments, textiles, and accessories from MFIT's permanent collection, and we invite viewers to consider the much-asked question, "Is fashion art?" through historic and contemporary examples. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | BEYOND UTILITY
February 25 – March 22, 2026
Lobby
Beyond Utility, curated by graduate students in the MA Fashion and Textile Studies program in collaboration with The Museum at FIT, examines the transformation of utilitarian garments within and beyond the fashion system, pairing archetypal workwear, military dress, and craft traditions with their later reinterpretations. The exhibition will showcase never-before-displayed objects from the MFIT Study Collection and the FTS Graduate Study Collection. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | DOLL DRESSING
September 10, 2026 – January 4, 2027
Lower Gallery
This exhibition will explore the ways in which dolls have influenced fashion and dressed appearance. Doll dressing takes many forms, ranging from the appeal of youthful baby doll dresses, to the 2D quality of "paper doll" looks, to the influence of creepy dolls on fashion. It encompasses clothing and accessories, hair and makeup, and even movement and gestures that take their cue from dolls. Learn more.
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// MEET US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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FREUD AND FASHION COLLIDE AT THE MUSEUM AT FIT'S LATEST EXHIBITION
"Steele's exhibition manages to uncover much of what is hidden in plain sight and links the psychological undercurrents between various works." V Magazine on Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis.
BEYOND MJ'S WHITE GLOVE: BILL WHITTEN'S FORGOTTEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC AND FASHION HISTORY
As appreciation for menswear surges, it's past due time to examine the life and legacy of a man who transcended the status quo of stage costuming, creating looks for some of the biggest names in music of the 20th century.
AT 76, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LOOKS BETTER THAN EVER. HERE’S HOW HE DO
Only a handful of rock stars' wardrobes stand the test of time – free from awkward trends, fashion clichés and bad styling. Fewer still maintain that over a 50-year career. "I don't think [Bruce Springsteen] started out trying to craft 'a look', but this blend of working-class elements embodies the authentic American image of a man who gets his hands dirty – which connects with his fans," says MFIT Deputy Director, Patricia Mears.
WHO GETS TO BE PREPPY
Once reserved for the privileged few, the style is now ubiquitous, open to broad interpretation, and accessible to all.
L'HISTOIRE: NAOMI CAMPBELL WEARS THE ICONIC UNION JACK DRESS
Years after Alexander McQueen's tenure as the creative director of Givenchy, one of the designer's favorite muses, Naomi Campbell, paid homage to his legacy by wearing the Union Jack Dress at the inaugural British Museum Ball.
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