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Visionary of Landscape: Kathryn Gustafson

Find the “soul” of a place and create a landscape that fits it perfectly. Be true to its history, culture, and natural environment in every element (composition and structure, stone, plants, water), so it seems to simply belong there. And provide beauty and moments of surprise, bringing visitors back again and again to discover something new. That’s the philosophy of the renowned landscape architect and Fashion Design alum Kathryn Gustafson. When it all works, she says, the journey through a landscape is nothing less than sensual, emotional, even poetic. Read more about her work at the Eiffel Tower and other iconic locations at hue.fitnyc.edu

Dressed, the fashion history podcast, aired two episodes about the recent Museum at FIT exhibition Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Hosts April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary, Fashion and Textile Studies alumni, spoke with curator and fellow alum Colleen Hill about the show and what was contained in old curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammer, the precursors to modern museum collections.