GALLERIES REOPEN MAY 12TH
WITH THE GRADUATING STUDENT EXHIBITION
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The 2026 Graduating Student Exhibition presents the work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study from the School of Art and Design. The work is the culmination of each student's unique experience in FIT's diverse, challenging, and demanding undergraduate art and design programs. Featuring juried, award-winning, and thesis projects, this presentation is the manifestation of several years of research, experimentation, critical thinking, and artistic proficiency.
See below or visit our Exhibitions Page for more details.
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ART X FASHION KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL PROGRAM
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In March, The Museum at FIT completed its 10th annual Kindergarten School Program with students at PS 33 Chelsea Prep in conjunction with the MFIT exhibition Art X Fashion. Weekly visits to the kindergarten classroom explored the "Elements of Art" — line, shape, color, form, and texture — and investigated their relationship to fashion. Students made their own art and, with the help of FIT's childrenswear students, turned their artwork into fashion accessories. The program culminated in a trip to MFIT to visit the exhibition, as well as a display of childrenswear designs by the FIT students who participated in the program and drew inspiration from their experience. The month-long program brought together Chelsea Prep kindergarten teachers and students, the MFIT education team, teaching artist Annina Christensen, and FIT professor Lauren Zodel and her Explorations in Childrenswear students. View Program Images on Flickr
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WE LOVE DOLLS: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
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Are you a fashion doll collector, creator, or admirer? Is there a doll from your childhood that you keep for its nostalgic value? Share your story with us for Doll Dressing, our fall 2026 exhibition that explores the history of fashion dolls and the influence of dolls on high fashion. You might be included in a digital component of our exhibition! This project is ongoing through the run of the exhibition (September 16, 2026 – January 3, 2027), but only responses received by July 1, 2026 will be considered for inclusion in the gallery.
See an Example Submission on the We Love Dolls Webpage or Submit Your Doll Story
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
Interpretations of Cat Chow's work vacillate between wearable art and sculpture, depending on where it is exhibited. "Measure for Measure" (2003) mimics a 1950s housewife's dress, and the use of woven measuring tapes used for sewing explores ideas of women's beauty standards, especially around body size. Visit our Online Collections
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Tim Gunn joined Dr. Valerie Steele at MFIT's 2018 Fashion and Physique symposium where they analyzed how 19th-century corsetry shaped an "ideal" silhouette and established long-lasting, often unrealistic body standards
Listen today!
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ART X FASHION SURVEY
Did you visit Art X Fashion in person? We'd love to hear from you! Tell us what your favorite object was or how you think we're doing? Take the survey today!
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UPCOMING | ART & DESIGN GRADUATING STUDENT EXHIBITION 2026
May 12 – 24, 2026
Multiple Locations
The work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study from the School of Art and Design will be on view in venues around the FIT campus in this year's Graduating Student Exhibition. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | DOLL DRESSING
September 16, 2026 – January 3, 2027
Special Exhibitions 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 about Doll Dressing.
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CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES FASHION DESIGNER ELIZABETH HAWES
The Cincinnati Art Museum hosts Elizabeth Hawes: Radical American Fashion through August 2, 2026. The exhibition features original sketches and illustrations alongside over 50 garments and dresses produced between the 1920s and 1960s. It also includes a few loans from The Museum at FIT!
VALERIE STEELE INTERVIEW
Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at FIT, is a pioneer in the field of fashion studies. She has been instrumental in establishing fashion as a legitimate intellectual and cultural subject. Alain Elkann asks her why she's devoted her life to the study of fashion. "Both the allure and the problematic aspects of fashion attracted and interested me."
LOEWE BRINGS MR AND MRS ALBERS TO THE CATWALK
Art and fashion conjoined this spring as Jonathan Anderson for Loewe took inspiration from the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers and her husband, the painter Joseph Albers. "Curiously, the act of transforming these artists' works into fashion makes them even more emphatically aesthetic objects. Suppressing the history of the original art's creation offers the radical effect of forcing a highly attentive gaze at the surface of the works on view."
MATTEL REVEALS FIRST AUTISTIC BARBIE
Designed in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, every detail is intentional – from her sensory-friendly outfit to her very own spinning fidget spinner.
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Iris Lingerie, nightgown, printed nylon, c. 1950, USA, gift of Mrs. A. S. Guimares, 75.183.80
EXHIBITIONS HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Twiggy London Girl, dress, printed synthetic jersey, 1966, England, museum purchase, 2017.20.1
Rootstein, Twiggy mannequin, 2025 remake of 1966 design, museum purchase.
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