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SUMMARY:Fashion Design AAS Exhibition: African Diaspora — Opens
DESCRIPTION:December 14\, 2024–January 29\, 2025\n Art and Design Gallery \nThe project of the fall 2024 Fashion Design AAS program\, African Diaspora\, presented in collaboration with The Museum at FIT\, honors the powerful influence of African culture on contemporary fashion. This showcase delves into themes of identity\, resilience\, and creativity\, celebrating the impactful contributions of African-descendant communities on style and self-expression. By exploring the interconnectedness of Black culture across borders\, the exhibition invites people from all backgrounds to engage in this shared narrative\, emphasizing the dynamic role of African influence in today’s fashion landscape. \n\nAbout the Art and Design Gallery \nThe Art and Design Gallery brings together the work of FIT students\, faculty\, alumni\, and invited outside artists in every exhibition. The gallery\, located in the glass-walled lobby of FIT’s Pomerantz Center\, is a window into the college and a window out\, serving as a space to foster learning and innovation. \nThe gallery is open 9 am to 5 pm daily. \nThis exhibition is free and open to the public. 
URL:https://events.fitnyc.edu/event/fashion-design-aas-exhibition-african-diaspora-opens/
LOCATION:Art and Design Gallery\, Pomerantz Center\, Fashion Institute of Technology\, 227 West 27th Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Africa's Fashion Diaspora — Closes
DESCRIPTION:Sindiso Khumalo\, printed cotton dress detail\, Spring 2021\, South Africa. The Museum at FIT\, museum purchase\, 2023.32.1\nSeptember 18–December 29\, 2024\nSpecial Exhibitions Gallery\, The Museum at FIT\n \nAfrica’s Fashion Diaspora examines fashion as a medium of storytelling and as a vital way for designers to contribute to longstanding and evolving ideas of transnational Black cultural spaces. Whether described as Négritude\, Pan-Africanism\, the Black Atlantic\, Black consciousness\, or Afrofuturism\, Black thinkers and creatives\, from philosophers to writers\, musicians\, and visual artists\, have theorized cultural connections between diverse communities of African descent. This exhibition explores designers from Africa\, the Americas\, and Europe who interpret and construct the culture of their distinct localities and communities for an international audience and/or reach across geographies to tie Black cultural practices together through their designs. \nExamples include South African designer Sindiso Khumalo’s textile print inspired by American abolitionist Harriet Tubman\, British designer Grace Wales Bonner’s tuxedo informed by the court of Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia\, and French designer Olivier Rousteing’s collection for Balmain based on Black American cowboys. Through approximately 60 ensembles\, textiles\, and accessories\, Africa’s Fashion Diaspora illustrates how fashion designers have contributed to international dialogues to chronicle\, evaluate\, and expand modern ideas of Blackness. \nAfrica’s Fashion Diaspora is curated by MFIT associate curator Elizabeth Way. \nThis exhibition is free and open to the public. 
URL:https://events.fitnyc.edu/event/exhibition-africas-fashion-diaspora-closes/
LOCATION:Special Exhibitions Gallery\, The Museum at FIT\, Fashion Institute of Technology\, New York City\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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