ANNOUNCING OUR FALL FASHION CULTURE LINEUP
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Summer might still be in full swing, but our fall Fashion Culture season is just around the corner. We’re excited to share that registration is now open for our upcoming programs! Enjoy Fashion Culture classics such as lectures about fashion, exhibition talk & tours, and our annual symposium. Or try something new, such as a block printing workshop or family program. Learn more below and register today.
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Photograph by Bea Di Giacomo
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This year’s Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award will honor Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer at the fashion house JACQUEMUS. The annual luncheon will be held on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. The event heralds the arrival of New York Fashion Week, with proceeds benefiting The Museum at FIT. Learn more about the event and how to buy tickets.
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STUDENT EXHIBITION OPEN NOW
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Tennis Ball Dress Contest is a joint industry-sponsored project held in partnership between IHG Hotels & Resorts and FIT’s School of Art and Design. Students were asked to create a tennis ball dress to be modeled and displayed throughout the 2024 US Open Tennis Tournament. The dress design had to incorporate tennis balls/tennis ball material, be wearable by a model, and embrace the spirit of tennis. The five student finalists are being displayed in this lobby exhibition through August 18th.
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
Charles James was a brilliant designer, but a difficult and tormented personality who made fewer than 1000 garments over the course of a 50-year career. James is best known for the intricately-cut, often asymmetrical ball gowns that he designed in the 1940s and 1950s.
Learn more about Charles James in our Online Collections.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
In this month’s podcast, MFIT Deputy Director Patricia Mears provides an intimate account of several groundbreaking runway shows from the 1990s that she witnessed firsthand. She also describes those she did not attend, but which nonetheless had a profound influence on her burgeoning understanding of fashion. Listen today.
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VIDEO ON DEMAND
Now streaming on demand on our YouTube channel is a conversation between Dr. Valerie Steele and Dr. Colleen Hill. They discuss their new Taschen book, Shoes A–Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT, which features which features hundreds of groundbreaking designs from the museum’s collection. Watch on demand.
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Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez
Amanda Wunder
Tuesday, September 25, 5:30 pm | FREE
In this lecture, cultural historian Amanda Wunder will talk about researching her book Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez, the first archival study of dress at the court of Philip IV, as told through the life and work of royal tailor Mateo Aguado. Tailor to the queens of Spain from 1630 to 1672, Aguado was the most influential dress designer in 17th-century Spain.
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| Cover of Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez, courtesy of Yale University Press.
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Courtesy of Eileen Fisher Renew.
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| Crafting Circular Solutions in Fashion Retail
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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Yakampot: Fashion and Social Responsibility
Concepción Orvañanos and Tanya Meléndez-Escalante
Tuesday, October 1, 5:30 pm | FREE
Concepción Orvañanos, founder and creative director of the Mexican brand Yakampot, will be in conversation with Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. They will discuss how fashion can be a vehicle for social change, whether through fair trade practices that promote the development of artisan groups or through ecological practices such as upcycling. This event is supported by INNSiDE by Meliá New York NoMad Hotel.
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| Yakampot dress, 2023 Circular Collection.
Photography: Nuria Lagarde. Courtesy of Yakampot.
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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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CURRENT | IHG HOTELS & RESORTS + FIT TENNIS BALL DRESS CONTEST
July 31 – August 18, 2024
The Tennis Ball Dress Contest is a joint industry-sponsored project held in partnership between IHG Hotels & Resorts and FIT's School of Art and Design. Students were asked to create a tennis ball dress to be modeled and displayed at select events during the 2024 US Open Tournament. The five student finalists are on display.
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UPCOMING | 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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// MEET US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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SUITS ARE THE PERFECT GARMENT. WHY HAVE THEY LOST THEIR POWER?
The art historian Anne Hollander changed the way we understand the history of dress with her brilliant book, Seeing Through Clothes, which demonstrated that depictions of dress have always informed how we see the naked body. This was followed by Sex and Suits, which focused on male bodies from classical antiquity to modern times. Enjoy this gift link to learn about Hollander.
THE BARBIE ISSUE
The latest issue of the Fashion Studies Journal is all about Barbie and all the strong reactions she elicits. From her contradictory feminism to Weird Barbie style, there are numerous angles to investigate this complex figure.
HOW THE HUMBLE EYED NEEDLE ALLOWED HUMANS TO INVENT FASHION MORE THAN 40,000 YEARS AGO
Could one technological innovation have changed how humans manufactured clothing and have ushered in fashion as we know it?
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Comme des Garçons, blue and white polka dot flip flops, rubber, 2017, Japan, gift of Jill Hemingway, 2017.73.1
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