ELIZABETH WAY RECEIVES PUBLICATION AWARD!
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Book cover of Ann Lowe: American Couturier (Rizzoli, 2024)
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Ann Lowe: American Courtier, a book by Elizabeth Way, MFIT Associate Curator of Costume, received the Costume Society of America’s (CSA) 2024 Millia Davenport Publication Award. The work accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library from September 2023 to January 2024. As guest curator of Ann Lowe: American Couturier and editor of the publication, Elizabeth Way helped to illuminate the life and work of Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America’s Social Registry. Read about the publication, exhibition, and award.
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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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!MODA HOY! REDUX: RECENTLY PUBLISHED
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Book cover of Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today ¡Moda Hoy! Courtesy of Bloomsbury.
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Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today ¡Moda Hoy!, edited by Tanya Meléndez-Escalante and Melissa Marra-Alvarez, is now available for purchase. Through a series of themes and topics such as Indigenous heritage, art, sustainable design, politics, gender, elegance, and popular culture, curators and Latin American fashion authorities highlight established designers with a strong international presence, such as Isabel Toledo, Carolina Herrera, and Oscar de la Renta, alongside emerging talents.
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Designer Susan Cianciolo typically assembled her work from secondhand materials. The patchworked sleeves of this 2006 dress incorporate welted seams from old jeans, large and uneven stitches, and blue painter’s tape to create a rag-tag, deconstructed appearance. Discover more from the exhibit Statement Sleeves.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
Before fashion objects can be exhibited, they are first examined by a textile conservator. In this conversation, the curator of MFIT’s Statement Sleeves, Dr. Colleen Hill, and assistant conservator, Callie O’Connor, discuss the hidden work of the conservator on three key fashion displays in the exhibition. Listen today.
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VIDEO OF THE MONTH
Now streaming on demand on our YouTube channel is a wonderful talk by street photographer Jannette Beckman. She tells behind-the-scenes stories about creating images of hip hop legends for her most recent book, Rebels: From Punk to Dior! Watch on demand.
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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 | FLOOD, MFA ILLUSTRATION VISUAL THESIS EXHIBITION 2024
June 5 – 30, 2024
The 2024 MFA Illustration Visual Thesis Exhibition, titled Flood, represents the culmination of three years of graduate study for the FIT MFA candidates. Each graduating student develops and executes a unique body of work that represents the cumulative experience of three years of technical exploration, artistic growth, academic research, and professional development. The exhibition consists of works on paper, digital art, augmented reality, graphic novels, and picture books.
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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. Learn more.
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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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‘HERMÈS HAS IT IN THE BAG’: LEGAL EXPERTS WEIGH BIRKIN LAWSUIT
The Birkin has built a reputation as the most coveted handbag in the world. Many consider it an investment piece, as reliable as fine jewelry, and since its introduction in 1984 it has retained its mystique even as whims in fashion change as quickly as the weather. But the Hermès Birkin bag is now facing an antitrust lawsuit.
THOM BROWNE: FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY
Last year, Thom Browne replaced Tom Ford as Chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. His mission is to support the new generation of creators so that they can develop their own story, inside and outside the U.S. — a story that “must entertain and provoke.”
A FASHIONABLE ODE TO THE INCOMPARABLE DAWN MELLO
Dawn Mello was hired in the 1970s as fashion director and vice president at Bergdorf Goodman. In her time there she became a legend–both as a champion of European and American fashion designers as well as of a team of creative employees. “One of the great lessons I learned from Dawn is never to hire anyone you wouldn’t want to have dinner with,” Tom Ford recalls. In an interview at FIT in 1994, she asserted that it was her job “to develop the talents of those people along the way… that’s pretty much it.”
MARTIN GREENFIELD, TAILOR TO SINATRA, OBAMA, TRUMP AND SHAQ, DIES AT 95
“The day I first wore that shirt was the day I learned clothes possess power.”
Read the incredible and inspiring story of Mr. Martin Greenfield who survived Auschwitz to later emigrate to the United States and become a clothier to sports stars and famous politicians, as well as TV and movies.
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Silk crepe and net evening gown, c. 1932, USA, gift in memory of Hilda Feldman Dickinson, 81.159.1
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