DON'T MISS NEW DIRECTIONS IN FASHION RESEARCH
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This Friday, April 5, the museum is hosting its 31st academic symposium. Free to all. Scroll down for more details.
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STUDENT EXHIBITION OPENS TODAY IN GALLERY FIT
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Image: Garments designed by Kassia Engelmann, modeled by Angelina Rataj (left) and by Divya Gupta, modeled by Priya Adhikary (right). Photograph by Danny Alvarado
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A collaborative showcase between students from FIT (NYC) and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), Cross-Pollination: ¡Moda Hoy! draws inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Connecting the threads between Latin America, Singapore, and New York, these students bring to life fresh perspectives on our collective future. This thought-provoking exhibition celebrates the diversity in craftsmanship and individual identities and illuminates the boundless possibilities of our interconnected world. The exhibition was curated by Allysa, Barnaba, and Dina Pritmani, seniors in the Art History and Museum Professions undergraduate program (AHMP) at FIT. The exhibition runs April 3 - 21, 2024. Visit today.
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OBJECT OF THE MONTH
Madame Grès possessed remarkable draping skills that allowed her to “sculpt” lightweight fabrics. This circa 1980 design corresponded to the fashion for oversized statement sleeves that began in the late 1970s and took hold during the following decade. Discover more from the exhibit Statement Sleeves.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Step into spring with our latest Fashion Culture Podcast episode featuring Amy de la Haye and Nick Knight! Together, they discuss the rose in fashion and explore Nick Knight’s creative process behind photographing the flower. Listen today.
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FEATURED VIDEOS
Did you know that MFIT records as many of our events as possible to make them available for viewing on demand? Check out our YouTube channel where you’ll find all the talks from our 2023 Hip Hop Style symposium, and so much more! Watch on demand.
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For the full lineup of Spring 2024 Fashion Culture Public Programs, VISIT OUR WEBSITE.
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New Directions in Fashion Research
Friday, April 5, 10 am – 5 pm | FREE
The Museum at FIT’s 31st symposium, New Directions in Fashion Research, will focus on new avenues of study in the interdisciplinary field of fashion. Scholars, curators, and collectors will explore topics such as practice-based research, collecting practices, theories and methodologies, and the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in fashion education.
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Book cover of Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today ¡Moda Hoy! Courtesy of Bloomsbury.
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| Latinx Networking Event
Thursday, April 11, 5:30 – 7 pm | FREE
We invite FIT students to an evening of socializing and career building. It will start with a panel discussion with fashion professionals of Latin American heritage who will share stories about their experiences in fashion, followed by a reception to network with presenters and other attendees. Refreshments will be served. This event, organized as collaboration of The Museum at FIT with the Social Justice Center at FIT and funded by the college’s Diversity Collective, is open to the FIT community and industry professionals.
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CURRENT | CROSS-POLLINATON: ¡MODA HOY!
April 3 – 21, 2024
A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition draws inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Students from both fashion colleges engage in creative dialogues around the themes of Myth and Rituals, Beliefs and Economics of Care, and Activism and Resistance. Connecting the threads between Latin America, Singapore, and New York, these students bring to life fresh perspectives on our collective future.
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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 – December 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.
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CLAUDE MONTANA, FASHION DESIGNER WHOSE LOOK DEFINED THE ’80S, DIES AT 76
It is with sadness that we say goodbye to Claude Montana (1949-2024). “He was a great designer," says Valerie Steele, director of MFIT, “His clothes were fierce, with a power that was both militaristic and highly eroticized. It was not the American power look of the shoulder-padded executive.”
HATTIE CARNEGIE: 20TH CENTURY FASHION ENTREPRENEUR
From the 1920s through the 1940s, Hattie Carnegie was the go-to American fashion designer for the rich and famous – and those with aspirations. Learn more about Carnegie's three-decade reign leading a fashion empire.
MUSEUM HOSTS EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTING PIONEER WOMEN
“The women who had come by the overland route appeared to have stood the hardships of the journey remarkably well and were not half so loud as the men in their complaints,” wrote Bayard Taylor, a journalist describing the influx of women coming off the trail in Sacramento in 1849. If you’re out west, “Her Side of the Story,” an exhibition about pioneer women, is on view at The Sutter County Museum in Yuba City, CA until April 7.
JULI LYNNE CHARLOT, CREATOR OF THE POODLE SKIRT, DIES AT 101
The creator of the poodle skirt is profiled in this interesting New York Times obituary of Juli Lynne Charlot.
ROMEO GIGLI'S NEW GIG
It’s gratifying to be a fashion icon, but one gets the sense that these days that designer Romeo Gigli prefers to focus squarely on the future.
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Stephen Burrows, multicolor striped rayon jersey dress, c. 1973, USA, gift of Mary W. Delany, 2016.32.4
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