You are invited to a conversation between fashion designer Stella McCartney and Museum at FIT Chief Curator Valerie Steele as they discuss McCartney's journey to her current position and her vision for creating sustainable fabrics and materials for design. A half hour has also been set aside for a Q&A session with FIT’s students to […]
Retail design, fashion merchandising, set design, furniture, packaging, interiors, architecture, fine art rendering... little-known architect and designer Jock Peters, a largely forgotten figure of early Los Angeles modernism, did it all. Professor Christopher Long presents his new book titled Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism by Bauer and Dean Publishers. The book […]
Please join us for an event to launch Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol on Tuesday, May 9. Natasha Degen, chair of Art Market Studies, will discuss her new book with curator and faculty member Alexandra Schwartz at 6 pm. A reception will follow. Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art […]
The best work of students in FIT’s Fashion Design Bachelor of Fine Arts program is presented every spring in a professional runway show, selected by faculty and industry critics. Degree specializations include sportswear, special occasion, knitwear, and intimate apparel. Find out more at fitnyc.edu/future. There will be two shows—one at 4 pm and a second […]
Paquin, evening cape, pink silk chiffon and metal sequins, 1897, France, museum purchase, P83.19.7 November 30–May 14, 2023 Fashion and Textile History Gallery Modern female fashion designers ardently incorporated interior decoration into their professional and personal lives. This phenomenon became increasingly evident beginning in the late nineteenth century, as more women founded important couture houses […]
