Fashion Culture: ‘Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man’ with Michèle Gerber Klein

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Cover of Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man: Fame, Fashion, Art. Courtesy of Rizzoli. Join author Michèle Gerber Klein and MFIT Director Valerie Steele as they discuss Klein’s new biography of revolutionary fashion designer Charles James. Klein tells the story of James’s life and career as seen through his own and other people’s eyes. […]

Runway27 Fashion Show: Twisted

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

Runway27, a student club comprised of students from all different majors across the college, will hold its annual runway show; this year's theme is Twisted. The event represents the work of four different committees—merchandising, production, public relations, and event planning—producing a professional-level runway show featuring work by FIT fashion designers combined with retail clothing and […]

Maker Minds Workshop: The Art of Korean Fabric Wrapping

Goodman Resource Center, Sixth Floor Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Artist Sei Ryun Chun will present on the topic of bojagi, a traditional Korean wrapping cloth and art form. Participants will learn how to wrap gifts using fabric provided by PrintFX and will come away with a deeper understanding of the significance of the bojagi tradition. Co-sponsored by the Asian Student Network, the Vietnamese Student […]

Fashion Culture for Families: Exploring Pink

Fashion Culture for Families: Exploring Pink

The Museum at FIT 27th Street at Seventh Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, ensemble,2009, Japan, museum purchase. 2010.50.2 Join The Museum at FIT for family fun inspired by the exhibition Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. On our first Friday, we will create a pink altar while learning about Mexico’s Día de los Muertos. Two weeks later, a scavenger hunt will […]

Exhibition: Fashion Unraveled — Closes

Fashion and Textile History Gallery, The Museum at FIT Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Detail of ensemble by XULY.Bët, repurposed acrylic sweaters, fall 1994, gift of XULY.Bët. May 25–November 17, 2018  Fashion Unraveled will examine the concepts of imperfection and incompletion in fashion. Garments that are altered, unfinished, or deconstructed, in addition to clothing that shows signs of wear, will highlight the aberrant beauty in flawed objects. Unless such […]