Week of Events
Fashion Culture: Yakampot: Fashion and Social Responsibility
Fashion Culture: Yakampot: Fashion and Social Responsibility
Yakampot dress, 2023 Circular Collection. Photo: Nuria Lagarde; courtesy of Yakampot. Concepción Orvañanos, founder and creative director of the Mexican brand Yakampot, will be in conversation with Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. They will discuss how fashion can be a vehicle for social change, whether through […]
Globally Connected @ FIT: Confluence of Tradition and Modernity in Textile Art
Globally Connected @ FIT: Confluence of Tradition and Modernity in Textile Art
Join Sunaina Bhalla for a fascinating exploration of how traditional textile techniques blend with modern artistic expressions. Sunaina Bhalla is a contemporary artist of Indian origin, living in Singapore. Educated in India, she moved to Tokyo in the late '90s and has spent the last two decades in various parts of North and South Asia. […]