Fashion Culture: Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico

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

Cover of Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico. Courtesy of Bloomsbury Join FIT Associate Professor José Blanco F. and independent researcher Raúl J. Vázquez-López who will present their new book, Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico, in conversation with MFIT's Senior Curator of Education Tanya Meléndez-Escalante. The book explores national identity […]

Fashion Culture: The Art of Parisian Chic

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

Cover of The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris. Courtesy of Bloomsbury. The new book by FIT Associate Professor Justine De Young, The Art […]

Fashion Culture: Fashion Under Fascism

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

Cover of Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt. Courtesy of Bloomsbury. CUNY professor Eugenia Paulicelli presents her book Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt, where she explores the subtle yet sinister changes to the seemingly innocuous practices of everyday dress and shows why they were a concern for the Italian state in the […]

Fashion Symposium: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

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

The artist Alisa Gorshenina wearing artificial eyes and a jeweled mouth. Photo by Elizaveta Porodina (@elizavetaporodina). Fashion and Psychoanalysis is The Museum at FIT's 34th symposium, planned in conjunction with the exhibition Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis. As the historian Peter Gay wrote, "We all speak Freud whether we know it or not." […]

Fashion Culture: The Unanswered Questions: Dreams, Symphonies, and Neuroses

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

Maison Roger, two-piece dress, c. 1877, France, museum purchase, 2020.28.1. Music therapist Jasmine Edwards moderates an exploration of how psychoanalysis has impacted contemporary music composition and performance, as well as generations of listeners and fashionable concertgoers. The talk will feature art therapist Ayde Rayas and a performance by award-winning violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious, who will […]