AFRICA’S FASHION DIASPORA EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM
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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora is now open!! This innovative exhibition explores fashion's role in shaping international Black diasporic cultures and is the first to examine fashion as a mode of cross-diasporic cultural production. Sixty ensembles and accessories by Black designers from Africa, Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean are placed in dialogue with each other, showing how these designers take complex inspirations from their own Black cultures and others across the diaspora. Learn more.
A day-long symposium will accompany the exhibition. It will explore key histories, networks, and industries led by Black designers who are actively shaping fashion culture. Scholars and designers illustrate the breadth and depth of diasporic fashion networks, from the African continent to South America and the United States. You can find the schedule on our website and register for free.
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LISTEN TO CONVERSATIONS ABOUT FASHION
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Dr. Valerie Steele was the guest on two recent podcasts. For Firsts by Deena, with host Deena Abdulaziz, Dr. Steele discusses her journey as a fashion historian, the most brilliant fashion exhibitions of recent decades, the psychoanalysis of fashion, and much more. For the podcast Fashion Our Future, podcast host Andrea Cheong and Dr. Steele, consider the question, “Does craftmanship still exist?” Listen to the conversation on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
Last month we celebrated the birthdays of two fashion greats: Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973) and Karl Lagerfeld (1933 - 2019). On the left is a 1938 Schiaparelli evening coat, gift of Mr. Rodman A. Heeren and on the right is a 1990 Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel evening dress, gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Learn more about fashion designers in our Online Collections.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
In this month’s podcast, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are featuring a conversation between designer Willy Chavarria, professor Aída Hurtado and MFIT’s education curator Tanya Meléndez-Escalante about the term Latinx and its constructs of inclusivity.
Listen today.
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PRESS OF THE MONTH
“All of the designers really use fashion to tell stories, and they, as Black people, tell stories about themselves and about their cultures. I think that through fashion we can understand other cultures a bit better,” muses MFIT curator Liz Way. Read the New York Times review of Africa’s Fashion Diaspora. Gift article link
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CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion
Sunita Kumar Nair and Steven Kolb
Thursday, October 17, 5:30 pm | FREE
Fashion creative director Sunita Kumar Nair and CFDA CEO Steven Kolb will discuss her book CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, which gathers the greats of the fashion world to speak about Bessette Kennedy's timeless style. The author will share personal anecdotes from family and friends, including Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Manolo Blahnik, Wes Gordon, Tory Burch, and others. A book signing will follow the event.
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| Cover of CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion. Courtesy of Harry N. Abrams.
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Lia Samantha, Colombiamoda fashion show, 2014. Photograph by Marlen Stahlhuth.
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| Africa’s Fashion Diaspora Symposium
Friday, October 25, 10 am – 5 pm | FREE
The Museum at FIT's 32nd symposium, Africa's Fashion Diaspora, will explore key histories, networks, and industries led by Black designers who are actively shaping fashion culture. Scholars and designers illustrate the breadth and depth of diasporic fashion networks, from the African continent to South America and the United States.
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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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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.
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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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ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENT DISCOVERS TROVE OF SILVER VIKING AGE ARMBANDS IN DENMARK
Gustav Bruunsgaard, a 22-year-old archaeology student at Aarhus University, was walking in a field in Denmark this spring when his metal detector started beeping. Using a small shovel to dig up the dirt, Bruunsgaard uncovered a silver bangle. When he returned to the same spot a few days later, he unearthed six more.
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK’S TRANSATLANTIC HERITAGE
Do you know the origins of New York Fashion Week? Published last year, this short piece on the inimitable Eleanor Lambert will catch you up to speed.
UKRAINIAN DESIGNERS HOPE FOR GROWTH AS FASHION WEEK RETURNS TO KYIV
“It’s more than just a fashion event; it’s a statement of resilience and creativity under the most trying circumstances," explains Ukrainian designer Ksenia Schnaider about the return of Ukrainian Fashion Week to Kviv. More than 50 brands presented their latest collections during the four-day showcase Sept 1-4.
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