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Fashion Culture: Norell: Master of American Fashion

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

Cover of Norell: Master of American Fashion. Courtesy of Rizzoli. Join Jeffrey Banks, co-author of Norell: Master of American Fashion, Ellin Saltzman, former fashion director and senior vice president at firms such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and Bergdorf Goodman, Stan Herman, designer and former president of the CFDA, and Ralph Rucci, couturier, artist and […]

Fashion Culture: Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent

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

Cover of Loulou & Yves. Courtesy of St. Martin’s Press. Join Christopher Petkanas and MFIT Deputy Director Patricia Mears for a discussion of the history of muses in fashion—especially Loulou de la Falaise, whose bohemian spirit and fearless sense of style caught the attention of Yves Saint Laurent. She is the subject of Petkanas’s new […]

Fashion Culture Event: Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look

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

Dior and His Decorators is the first book devoted to the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic drawing on the refined traditions of […]

Fashion Culture: Empresses of Seventh Avenue

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

Cover of Empresses of Seventh Avenue. Courtesy of St. Martin's Press. Author and fashion historian Nancy MacDonell will be discussing her new book, Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion, with MFIT Deputy Director Patricia Mears. Please join us for an illuminating conversation about the extraordinary […]

Fashion Culture: Fashion at the 1925 Art Deco Exhibition

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

Pochoir of a laquered smoking room by Jean Dumad featured at the 1925 L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925. Join MFIT Deputy Director Patricia Mears, Swann Galleries owner Nicholas Lowry, jewelry specialist Virginia Salem, in a panel moderated by MFIT Couture Council member Gordon Kendall in celebration of the 100th anniversary […]