FOOD & FASHION EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
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The museum’s latest exhibition, Food & Fashion, serves up a wide range of topics that illustrate food culture’s longstanding and significant influence on fashion. We hope you’ll find your way to Chelsea to see it! If you’re not in the NYC area, you can still enjoy the exhibition via our website and the special audio feature on our Bloomberg Connects digital guide.
In addition, on Friday, November 3rd, we’re hosting a related fashion symposium. Preeminent food and fashion scholars, as well as designers, chefs, and artists, will explore how food culture has influenced fashion—and vice versa—for over two centuries. Visit our website to learn more.
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NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AT MFIT
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It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month and we have put together some digital content so that you can discover the rich history and creativity of Hispanic and Latin American fashion at The Museum at FIT. Join us in celebrating the diverse and vibrant contributions of Hispanic and Latin American design through our collections, past exhibitions, and events.
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Ann Lowe: American Couturier is on view at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Guest-curated by MFIT Associate Curator Elizabeth Way, this retrospective of the African American fashion designer includes loans from the collection of MFIT.
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OBJECT OF THE MONTH
On September 10th, we celebrated Elsa Schiaparelli's birthday on social media. She is remembered for her Surrealist-inspired fashion designs of the 1930s. Milliner extraordinaire Stephen Jones riffs on her famous shoe hat with this sparkly PB&J sandwich hat currently on view in Food & Fashion.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Our latest podcast episode features the co-curators of ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion – Tanya Meléndez-Escalante and Melissa Marra-Alvarez – who discuss the curatorial process of putting together the exhibition (now closed), which showcased the fashion contributions of designers of Latin American descent. Tune in today!
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
You can pre-order Shoes A-Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT! Hundreds of groundbreaking designs are featured in this volume, a follow-up to Fashion Designers A–Z, now in its 40th edition. Learn more.
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Shoes A–Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT
Wednesday, October 11, 5:30 pm | FREE
MFIT Director and Chief Curator Valerie Steele and Curator of Costume and Accessories Colleen Hill discuss their new Taschen book, Shoes A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs from the museum’s pristinely preserved collection are presented in the book.
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| Image: Zaha Hadid for United Nude, rose gold vinyl platforms, 2013, France, museum purchase, 2013.83.1
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Image: BH signature ramen print set, Bobblehaus, 2020. Photographed by Madeline Thomas for Bobblehaus.
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| Food & Fashion Symposium
Friday, November 3, 10am – 5pm | FREE
The Food & Fashion Symposium features preeminent food and fashion scholars, as well as designers, chefs, and artists, exploring how, for over two centuries, food culture has impacted fashion and vice versa. Topics include sustainability, the creative overlap between fashion and food within haute cuisine and through social media, how cultural identity and social justice are communicated through food and fashion, how body image and eating practices intersect with food and fashion, and how artists express the relationship between these two vital aspects of culture and society.
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CURRENT | FOOD & FASHION
September 13 - November 26, 2023
Food and fashion are two modes of expression central to our daily lives. The histories of food and fashion as consumer and cultural products have converged over the past three centuries. Food & Fashion explores how fashion designers turn to food themes and motifs to comment on critical topics ranging from cultural identity to sustainability, social activism, and body politics, as well as ideas related to femininity, domesticity, nostalgia, and consumerism. Learn more.
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CURRENT | THE LOOP FOR GOOD | 2023 ANNUAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN EXHIBITION
September 16 - October 15, 2023
Founded in 2019, the Loop for Good is a college-wide interdisciplinary experiential learning project focused on sustainability and technology. This year’s exhibition celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Loop for Good. The exhibition theme is “Digital Athletes for Sportsmanship” to promote respect, ethics, and fellowship in a broader community. Each participating student artist integrated academic research, creativity, innovation, digital design technologies, and the art of physical craftsmanship into the presented work.
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Comme des Garçons, polyester, cotton, and nylon dress, spring 2018, Japan, gift of Nordstrom, 2021.33.5
The exhibitions and programs of The Museum at FIT are supported in part by
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