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Week of Events
Exhibition: IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive — Closes
February 12–March 5 Professor C.J. Yeh, Communication Design, curates an interdisciplinary exhibition examining the importance of creativity for social impact and inclusion. IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive is an exhibition about the imagination and its effects on positive social change. Yeh will curate work by students, faculty, and alumni, as well work by an invited artist to […]
Exhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Opens
Grenelle-Estévez, evening set, circa 1957, gift of Sylvia Levine. March 5–30, 2019 Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated to educating fashion industry professionals in New York City. The impact of the school, in operation from 1923 to 1991, will be explored through an introduction […]
Exhibition: Hattitudes — Closes
February 26–March 8 This special short exhibition, curated by Communication Design Pathways Professor Anne Kong and 42 students in the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design program, features hats from the celebrated collection of the late former FIT dean and professor Nina Kurtis. The students designed and created individual 360-degree displays featuring a hat from a […]
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Visiting Author Talk: Simeon Marsalis
Visiting Author Talk: Simeon Marsalis
Simeon Marsalis. Photo by Chris Buck. Multimedia writer Simeon Marsalis's first novel, As Lie Is to Grin, focuses on an African-American college student's experience in a predominantly white college. Short-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize in 2017, the novel examines racialized bodies navigating spaces from which they have historically been barred. Incorporating […]
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Fashion Culture: ‘Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco’
Fashion Culture: ‘Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco’
Poster for Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is an electrifying documentary that follows fashion illustrator and FIT alumnus Antonio Lopez from New York to Paris between 1969 and 1973. Interviews with Bill Cunningham and Jessica Lange, archival footage, and Antonio’s own exuberant illustrations tell the story of […]
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Fashion Symposium: Exhibiting Fashion
Fashion Symposium: Exhibiting Fashion
The Museum at FIT presents Exhibiting Fashion, its 21st academic symposium. This symposium will explore the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional […]