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Tag: Black Fashion Designers

Fashion Culture: Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence, and Culture

January 22, 2025 Laura Hatmaker

Tonya Blazio-Licorish, archives editor with WWD and co-author of Black in Fashion, present and host a panel discussion on the […]

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Fashion Culture: Black Designers: Leading New Fashion Models

August 20, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

The Museum at FIT will host a conversation about influential Black American designers who are reshaping the fashion industry through […]

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Exhibition: Africa’s Fashion Diaspora — Closes

July 24, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

September 18–December 29, 2024 Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Museum at FIT Africa’s Fashion Diaspora examines fashion as a medium of […]

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Exhibition: Africa’s Fashion Diaspora — Opens

July 24, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

September 18–December 29, 2024 Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Museum at FIT Africa’s Fashion Diaspora examines fashion as a medium of […]

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FIT Authors Talks: Elizabeth Way on Black Designers in American Fashion

April 7, 2022 Laura Hatmaker

Elizabeth Way, associate curator at The Museum at FIT, presents on her book, Black Designers in American Fashion. Q&A to […]

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Fashion Culture Online Event: Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear 

September 3, 2021 Laura Hatmaker

Katie Knowles, Darnell Jamal Lisby, Kristen E. Stewart, and Elizabeth Way Join MFIT Assistant Curator Elizabeth Way, editor of the […]

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Valerie Steele at home in front of her bookcases

MFIT’s Steele Discusses Fashion and the Pandemic with CBS This Morning

September 22, 2020 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Museum

Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss “Fashion […]

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Spotlighting a Barrier-Busting Designer

February 5, 2020 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Alumni Home

  Last August, historian and curator Rachel Fenderson put on a retrospective exhibition about American couturier Jay Jaxon ’66 at […]

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Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture — Closes

February 23, 2018 Laura Hatmaker

Note: This exhibition has been extended; it will now close April 30. February 26–April 30, 2018 The Office of Educational […]

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Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture

February 23, 2018 Laura Hatmaker

February 26–March 31, 2018 The Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Leonard Davis present Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style […]

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