Gabriela Hearst. Photo by: Zoë Ghertner
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2023 COUTURE COUNCIL AWARD FOR ARTISTRY OF FASHION
MFIT will honor Gabriela Hearst, founder and creative director of her namesake fashion brand and creative director of French luxury fashion house Chloé, with its Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion on Sept 6.
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¡MODA MOY! AUDIO TOUR
To include deeper stories about objects in the exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today, the curators recorded ten short audio clips. Listen to the audio tour in English or Spanish on our website today.
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
Everyone went crazy for Barbenheimer last month! We went with a pink and black Comme des Garçons “Biker/Ballerina” look from 2005.
Find your favorite in our Online Collections.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Our newest Fashion Culture Podcast episode spotlights the American designer, author, labor organizer, and social critic Elizabeth Hawes. She was the subject of the recent MFIT exhibition, Elizabeth Hawes: Along Her Own Lines. Listen today.
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LOCAL EXHIBITION
The Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition, Africa Fashion, celebrates the outstanding creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of African fashions from the start of the independence era to today. On view through October 22. Learn more.
(IAMISIGO, 2020. Photo: Maganga Mwagogo)
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CURRENT | ¡MODA HOY! LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINX FASHION DESIGN TODAY
May 31 - November 12, 2023
This exhibition includes creators from Latin American countries, as well as designers of Latin American heritage living and working in the United States and Europe who are often referred to as Hispanic, Latino/Latina, or the gender-neutral term Latinx. The exhibition rejects the notion of a singular Latin American style, to focus instead on the diversity of talent present today in Latin America and its diaspora. Content for this exhibition is available both in English and Spanish.
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CURRENT | PAREIDOLIA - 2023 ILLUSTRATION MFA VISUAL THESIS SHOW
June 17 - November 21, 2023
The 2023 Visual Thesis Show, titled Pareidolia, represents the culmination of three years of graduate study for the FIT MFA Illustration candidates. Each MFA candidate develops and executes a unique body of work that represents their exploration, artistic growth, academic research, and professional development. This year the exhibition includes the work of 15 MFA candidates and consists of works on paper, collaged drawings, digital art, animation motion graphics, comics, and picture books.
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UPCOMING | 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 will explore 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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UPCOMING | STATEMENT SLEEVES
November 2023 - May 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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EARRING MAGIC KEN AND “OUT AND PROUD” BILLY
In 2020, the New York Historical Society acquired two new Ken dolls for their toy collection. Read about their interesting history.
THE STORY BEHIND MARLENE DIETRICH’S VAN CLEEF & ARPELS BRACELET, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JEWELS OF ALL TIME
Christie’s auction house sold a Van Cleef & Arpels ruby and diamond “Jarretière” bracelet worn by Marlene Dietrich in the 1950 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Stage Fright. Learn more about the bracelet, its role in the film, its craftsmanship, and its late owner, the interior designer Anne Eisenhower.
THE BATTLE TO RETURN MOCTEZUMA’S HEADDRESS TO MEXICO
Mexico has long demanded the return of the legendary headdress (or possible cape) that is believed to have once belonged to the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II (Montezuma). However, the journey to reclaim this symbol of Mexico’s past has encountered unexpected challenges, as the Weltmuseum Wien in Austria has refused to part with it.
SHOES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Medieval shoe styles were quite different from modern-day fashions. Enjoy reading about examples in this article that examines shoes in the High and Late Middle Ages.
INDIGENOUS FASHION DESIGNERS SHOW WORK IN BUTTE
“It was a spiritual experience,” is how one model described it.
Shayne Hall of the Blackfeet Tribe was one of more than a dozen models who took part in the First Peoples’ Fashion Show at the Montana Folk Festival in Butte on July 15th. Four Native American designers — who have shown around the world — all said their work was rooted and inspired by their heritage or traditional techniques, with their own twist.
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