This year’s Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award will honor Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer at the fashion house JACQUEMUS. The annual luncheon will be held on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. The event heralds the arrival of New York Fashion Week, with proceeds benefiting The Museum at FIT.
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STATEMENT SLEEVES HIDDEN DETAILS
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Our special curator’s notes for Statement Sleeves will enrich your visit to the exhibition. View the hidden details that helped curator Dr. Colleen Hill select certain garments for the exhibition.
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Pauline Trigère was a master of cutting on the bias—a challenging technique that involves turning the fabric at an oblique angle. MFIT’s Assistant Conservator Callie O’Connor used this technique to create a replica of the dress’ missing sash for Statement Sleeves. Discover more from the exhibit Statement Sleeves.Statement Sleeves.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Anna Sui is known for her contemporary reimagining of historic textiles and vintage clothing. In this month’s Fashion Culture Podcast episode, Sui is interviewed by MFIT’s Deputy Director Patricia Mears. They discuss how Anna Sui first got interested in fashion and what inspires her. Listen today.
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PUBLICATION OF THE MONTH
Out now! This companion book to the 2023 MFIT exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today covers a variety of themes and topics such as Indigenous heritage, art, sustainable design, politics, gender, elegance, and popular culture. Available for purchase.
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CURRENT | STATEMENT SLEEVES
January 24 – August 25, 2024
Whether puffed, ruffled, split, or sheer, statement sleeves have been a ubiquitous fashion trend for the past decade. These dramatic, contemporary creations can enliven and update a wardrobe, yet many current sleeve styles have cycled in and out of fashion for decades, if not centuries. Although sleeves can be especially challenging to make, they also inspire countless creative ideas. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | AFRICA'S FASHION DIASPORA
September 18 – December 29, 2024
Africa’s Fashion Diaspora examines fashion as a medium of storytelling and as a vital way for designers to contribute to longstanding and evolving ideas of transnational Black cultural spaces. Whether described as Négritude, Pan-Africanism, the Black Atlantic, Black consciousness, or Afrofuturism, Black thinkers and creatives, from philosophers to writers, musicians, and visual artists, have theorized cultural connections between diverse communities of African descent. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | FASHIONING WONDER: A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
February – April 2025
This exhibition explores the fascinating and longstanding connections between cabinets of curiosities and fashion. Also known as wunderkammern, cabinets of curiosities were precursors to the modern museum, and many included examples of clothing. More than 150 garments and accessories represent the breadth of objects collected within the cabinets, and they are further selected to pique curiosity through their rarity, beauty, or originality.
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SAVING BARBIE FROM HER OWN INHERENT VICE
Barbie does not always age well. Those sticky legs and green ears are a tell tale sign. This deep dive into the conservation efforts on Barbie and other dolls reveals that some plastic objects cannot be saved. Rachel Brazil investigates how conservation scientists are approaching this sticky problem
DOES MYSTERIOUS PAINTING PROVE BLUE DENIM WAS AROUND 200 YEARS BEFORE LEVI'S?
Was there denim before Levi’s? A gallery run by international fine art dealer Maurizio Canesso is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialized in street scenes that often depict impoverished people in northern Italy wearing what looks like blue denim.
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Patrick Kelly, dress, cotton denim and metal, fall 1987, France, gift of Bjorn G. Amelan and Bill T. Jones, 2016.82.9
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