• 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 […]