SEPTEMBER | AT THE MUSEUM
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AFRICA’S FASHION DIASPORA OPENS SEPTEMBER 18TH!
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Africa’s Fashion Diaspora is an innovative exhibition that explores fashion's role in shaping international Black diasporic cultures. This exhibition 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.
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MUSEUM AT FIT TEMPORARILY CLOSED
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The museum's galleries are temporarily closed as we install Africa's Fashion Diaspora opening September 18th.
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CONGRATULATIONS JACQUEMUS!
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Photograph by Bea Di Giacomo
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This year’s Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award honored Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer at the fashion house JACQUEMUS. The annual luncheon was held yesterday Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. Hundreds attended the event that heralds the arrival of New York Fashion Week, with proceeds benefiting The Museum at FIT.
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
This flamboyant Gianni Versace suit is made from a textile that features some of Warhol’s famous silk screened portraits of Hollywood actors. Versace’s flashy designs perfectly complement the vibrant colors and fascination with celebrity culture in Warhol’s paintings.
Learn more about Versace in our Online Collections.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
In this month’s podcast, the curator of Africa’s Fashion Diaspora shares her inspiration and process for curating the exhibition and introduces listeners to the exhibition’s world of diasporic crossings.
Listen today.
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VIDEO ON DEMAND
If you’re looking for a fashion history refresher, in Spanish, we’ve got you covered! “100 años de moda” es una introducción en dos partes a la historia de la moda desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la década de 1990. 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, September 26, 5:30 – 7 pm | FREE
Join circular-design consultants Lauren B. Fay and Cynthia Power as they discuss the work of brands and retailers that are transitioning to a circular economy. A model of production and consumption, circular economy involves sharing, reusing, repairing, and recycling existing materials and products for as long as possible.
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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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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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WHY YOU’RE ALWAYS THE RIGHT AGE TO DON A BOW
Betsey Johnson has had a successful career since the 1960s, when she established herself as a leader in the youthquake fashion revolution. Enjoy this interview with the designer. She discusses all things bows.
PEGGY MOFFITT, 86, DIES; DEFINED ’60s FASHION WITH A BATHING SUIT AND A BOB
On August 10th we lost the model and muse Peggy Moffitt whose distinctive look, which included a Vidal Sassoon bob and long eyelashes, defined the modern style of the mid-1960s. She was often photographed in Rudi Gernreich’s designs, most notably in his topless bathing suit. “I think a side of her liked being a muse very much, and there was a side that was terrified — that didn’t want to draw attention or to be looked at or be judged,” her son Christopher Claxton explained. “But she also had this wild and experimental side of her that was about creating art and pushing boundaries. When she felt free and safe enough, she would do these wild and crazy things."
IN A WORLD OF FAST FASHION, THEY TAKE PRIDE IN TAKING THEIR TIME
Some younger people have become interested with learning old-fashioned hand crafts like leather-making, millinery and lacework. You know where you can learn about some of those skills and techniques? In classes at FIT and by visiting The Museum at FIT!!
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Aisha Ayensu for Christie Brown, Prairie Princess collection, cotton wax print and chiffon ensemble, spring 2016, Ghana, gift of Christie Brown, 2016.54.1
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