FIT Museum to Present 'Black Fashion Designers' Exhibit
It will address the global history of black designers — and models — from the 1950s to the present.
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
A New FIT Exhibit Shows How Uniforms Have Influenced Fashion Since the 1800s
"Uniformity" is on view at the Museum at FIT through November 19.
Fairy Tales Are Brought To Life Through Fashion in FIT's Latest Exhibit
Fifteen different fables, from "Alice in Wonderland" to "The Little Mermaid," are illustrated through runway looks and historical costumes.
FIT Presents a Denim Retrospective — From 19th Century Workwear to Runway Collections
The exhibit, "Denim: Fashion’s Frontier," features 75 pieces from the Museum at FIT's permanent collection.
Miley Cyrus's Foam Finger Is Almost Sold Out, Grace Coddington Praises Azzedine Alaia, and Princesses Dig Lanvin
Topshop has hired Antipodium's Geoffrey J. Finch to be its new creative design consultant. {Vogue UK} Grab your Miley Cyrus foam finger while you can--the cheapest Halloween costume you'll maybe ever come by is apparently almost sold out. {The Cut} Valerie Steele, director and chief curator at The Museum at F.I.T., revealed this morning that the its fall 2014 exhibit will be "Dance and Fashion." We knew Rick Owens was onto something... {WWD}
Inside FIT's New Shoe Porn Exhibit
The latest exhibition to take up residency at NYC's The Museum at FIT is Shoe Obsession, featuring over 150 pieces of contemporary footwear, which also made their way into an accompanying book due out in April. Designers featured include icons like Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutins and relative newcomers like Charlotte Olympia.
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FIT Museum's Next Exhibit Will Celebrate Gay Designers
The FIT Museum's Chief Curator Valerie Steele has an interesting exhibition in the works for next year. It's to be called "Queer Style: From the Closet to the Catwalk" and will focus on gay designers. Admittedly, our initial thought was: "Wait, so will it include every (male) designer?" The fact that gay designers outnumber straight male ones (though, there are more heterosexuals than you might think) makes us wonder how exactly they'll... narrow that down.
10 Fashion Exhibitions You Won't Want to Miss in 2012
Given the record-breaking success of this year's Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Met, museums would be smart to put more fashion in their halls. And if today's piece in WWD on museums "getting fashionable" is any indication, they are. Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, told the trade, “Clearly the critical as well as popular success of the McQueen show suggests that fashion design has a more secure place in the precincts of an art museum.” While any museum would be hard-pressed to recreate the magic that was "Savage Beauty," more fashion exhibits are popping up all over the world and several big ones are already on track to debut next year.
Fashion News Roundup: Miranda Kerr is Naked, Pregnant and Missing a Wedding Dress, and Jason Wu is Doing Bridal
The Prettiest Baby Bump Ever: Miranda Kerr posed nude for W magazine, six months pregnant with what will be the most attractive child to ever be born. {W} Wedding Disaster: In related news, Kerr might also be walking down the aisle naked because American Airlines lost luggage containing her wedding dress in July. Four months later, she still thinks she has a chance at getting it back and asked her Facebook friends for advice. {Racked} Is London More Posh? Victoria Beckham might start showing in London instead of New York. "I'm very proud to be British and the brand is British," said the designer. {Vogue UK}