SPRING 2025 | EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT
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Opening February 19, 2025, Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities 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. Nearly 200 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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STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT IN THE MUSEUM LOBBY
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Image: Coral Day, Jan Edward, Fabiana Torres
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Swing by the MFIT lobby this month to see This Must Be The Place, an exhibition of images taken by 42 students in the Photography and Related Media BFA program. This Must Be The Place showcases a range of photographs, from documentary to conceptual. The scope of work reflects contemporary trends of fine art photography and highlights individual creative vision.
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| OBJECTS OF THE MONTH
Fashion and politics are an enduring theme. Last month, a number of MFIT curators were asked to weigh in on the topic so we shared this pairing of a circa 1889 costume and a Catherine Malandrino dress that were on view in our 2009 exhibition Fashion & Politics.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
In this month's podcast, photographer Robert Fairer discusses Alexander McQueen's runway shows with writer and consultant John Matheson (of Instagram's @McQueen_Vault). The 2021 conversation is moderated by MFIT’s senior curator of education Tanya Meléndez-Escalante.
Listen today.
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EXHIBITION AUDIO TOUR
Join curator Elizabeth Way as she takes a closer look at nine objects in Africa's Fashion Diaspora. This audio tour walks you through the stories behind each theme of the exhibition. Listen today.
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Fashioning the Beatles
Thursday, November 7, 5:30 pm | FREE
Author Deirdre Kelly will present her book Fashioning the Beatles, the first title to provide an in-depth analysis of the sartorial impact and legacy of the Fab Four. More than 50 years after their breakup, the band's style continues to inspire designers, including Thom Browne, John Varvatos, Anna Sui, Rei Kawakubo, Tom Ford, Alessandro Michele, and Stella McCartney.
A book signing will follow the event.
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| Cover of Fashioning the Beatles. Courtesy of Ingram Publisher Services/University of Toronto Press.
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Hope for Flowers by Tracy Reese, cupro, cotton, and tulle dress, summer 2020, USA, gift of Hope for Flowers by Tracy Reese.
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| Black Fashion Designers:
Leading New Fashion Models
Thursday, November 14, 5:30 pm | FREE
Join us for a conversation with influential Black American designers who are reshaping the fashion industry through new production networks, cultural narratives, and sustainability. Tracy Reese, Abrima Erwiah, and B. Michael will discuss how they are building bridges between New York and global locales. The conversation will be moderated by Elizabeth Way, MFIT curator of costumes and accessories, with a book signing to follow the event.
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CURRENT | 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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CURRENT | THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
November 2 – December 8, 2024
This Must Be the Place is a student-led exhibition, produced and created in the Photographic Concepts and Exhibition course. Throughout the semester, students produce photographs to challenge their technical and creative abilities while collaborating in committees to bring the show to life. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | FASHIONING WONDER: A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
February – April 2025
This inventive exhibition provides the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating connections between cabinets of curiosities and fashion. Also known as wunderkammern in German, cabinets of curiosities can be traced back to the early 16th century. The nearly 200 garments and accessories, almost exclusively selected from MFIT's permanent collection, are inspired by the breadth of objects collected within the cabinets. Learn more.
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UPCOMING | ALL THAT GLITTERS...
February – March 2025
All That Glitters... explores surfaces that shine, focusing on themes of material production, social and financial values, and conservation. This exhibition, conceived of and organized by graduate students in FIT's MA Fashion and Textile Studies program, examines not only the bright side of these materials, but also their darker side–including their environmental impact and their use in protests, such as "glitter bombing."
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// MEET US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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BOOK PRESENTED THAT SHOWS THE DIVERSITY OF FASHION IN LATIN AMERICA
(in Spanish) Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, curadora en jefe de Educación y Programas Públicos en el Museo del Instituto Tecnológico de la Moda (FIT), se ha dedicado a exponer el talento de muchas y muchos diseñadores de distintas partes de Latinoamérica, exposiciones que fueron parte esencial para la elaboración de esta obra literaria.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HIGH HEELS & THE INVENTION THAT CHANGED FASHION
Dr. Colleen Hill, senior curator of costume at The Museum at FIT, discusses the invention of stilettos in this Footwear News article about the history of high heels.
THE 50 MOST ICONIC LOOKS OF ALL TIME
Harper’s Bazaar taps MFIT director Dr. Valerie Steele as part of a brain trust to determine which fashion moments deserve a place alongside Dior’s watershed New Look.
MARY MCFADDEN, CELEBRATED DESIGNER OF SHIMMERING DRESSES, DIES AT 85
Mary McFadden was an American art collector, editor, fashion designer, and writer. She worked as the director of public relations for Dior during the 1960s and was the editor for South African Vogue from 1968 to 1970. McFadden started her own clothing company in 1976, Mary McFadden Inc. Sadly, McFadden passed away last week. You can read more about her life and accomplishments with this New York Times gift article.
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Bes-Ben hat, embroidered felt, plastic, and net, 1962-1965, USA, gift of Hope W. Levene, 86.104.1
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