FOOD & FASHION EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
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On Friday November 3rd, our day-long Food & Fashion Symposium starts at 10am. Preeminent food and fashion scholars, as well as designers, chefs, and artists, will explore how food culture has influenced fashion—and vice versa—for over two centuries. Scroll down for more details.
The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, Food & Fashion (closing Nov 26) which serves up a wide range of topics that illustrate food culture’s longstanding and significant influence on fashion. If you’re not in the NYC area, you can still enjoy the exhibition via our website and don’t miss the special audio feature.
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The FIT community is invited to attend the immersive exhibition Reverso Stories as part of a special partnership between The Museum at FIT and Jaeger-LeCoultre. Located at IRON 23 in Chelsea, the exhibition will run from November 3 - 22, 2023. The retrospective leads visitors through nine decades of craftsmanship, innovation and design behind the celebrated timepiece. The experience is enhanced by an immersive digital art installation by Korean artist Yiyun Kang; a space devoted to the video series ‘In the Making’; a room dedicated to Japanese artist Hokusai, whose works have been reproduced on Reverso timepieces; and hands-on watchmaking Discovery Workshops within the Atelier d’Antoine.
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The lobby will be used for early voting from November 1 to November 5. We thank you for your understanding.
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| OBJECT OF THE MONTH
According to fashion curator Elizabeth Jachimowicz, a trend for corn-trimmed hats peaked in 1941. The style made a comeback during the 1960s when the Chicago-based milliner Bes-Ben designed this corn-cob hat embroidered with individual kernels. It’s currently on view in Food & Fashion. Explore more MFIT objects in our Online Collections.
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FASHION CULTURE PODCAST
This month’s podcast episode is a special collaboration with Radio Cherry Bombe. Host Kerry Diamond interviews the curators of MFIT’s exhibition Food & Fashion, Elizabeth Way and Melissa Marra-Alvarez. Listen today!
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
Looking for a holiday read or a gift for a fashionable gourmand? Look no further! Lavishly illustrated, Food & Fashion features over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, as well as thought-provoking and engaging discussions. On sale now!
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Image: BH signature ramen print set, Bobblehaus, 2020. Photographed by Madeline Thomas for Bobblehaus.
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| Food & Fashion Symposium
Friday, November 3, 10am – 5pm | FREE
The Food & Fashion Symposium features preeminent food and fashion scholars, as well as designers, chefs, and artists, exploring how, for over two centuries, food culture has impacted fashion and vice versa. Topics include sustainability, the creative overlap between fashion and food within haute cuisine and through social media, how cultural identity and social justice are communicated through food and fashion, how body image and eating practices intersect with food and fashion, and how artists express the relationship between these two vital aspects of culture and society.
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CURRENT | 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 explores 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 | WE ARE NOBODY ELSE
November 6 - 17, 2023
We Are Nobody Else presents the work of FIT students currently enrolled in Professor Bradly Dever Treadaway’s Photography Concepts and Exhibition course. The exhibition is built on the creative efforts of a diverse roster of artists engaged in personal lens-based projects. These projects probe identity, gender, sexuality, life cycles, mental health, institutional critique, tableaux vivant, memory, memorial and family history, intimacy and relationships. The included scope of concepts and approaches represent a collective gathering point - a moment to pause, to reflect, and observe current creative threads that are continuously developing and evolving.
This exhibition is only open to the FIT community M-F 9am - 5pm in The Art and Design Gallery's Studio Space, D-233
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// MEET US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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HOW THE ZOOT SUIT GOT SO MUCH SWAG
The zoot suit style fell out of favor after WWII. But its exaggerated silhouette exemplifies how exclusive barriers to fashion are broken down through the creative ingenuity of the unsung.
NORWEGIAN MAN UNCOVERS ANCIENT JEWELS WITH METAL DETECTOR
Is it food, or is it fashion? Erlend Bore of Sola of Norway uncovered ancient gold jewelry while taking his new metal detector out for a spin. “At first, I thought I had found chocolate money or [fictional pirate] Captain Sabertooth coins. It was completely unreal,” said Bore.
LORO PIANA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF RENOWNED KNIT DESIGN AWARD
The winners of the internationally-renowned 2023 Loro Piana Knit Design Award were students Sumin An and Blake Dewitt of the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York. The competition is created to showcase the talents of student designers who highlight their own take on various yarns that represent the prestige of the Maison. CONGRATULATIONS!!
FROM BAROQUE TO BAGUETTE: FOOD FASHION GETS ITS OWN MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Enjoy this extensive walk-through of our delectable exhibition Food & Fashion from Today.com
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HEADER IMAGE CREDIT
Cynthia Rowley, corn and tomato printed rayon dresses, 1993, USA, gifts of Cynthia Rowley, 93.96.1 and 93.96.2
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