In a conversation moderated by MFIT Assistant Curator Elizabeth Way, historian Alphonso McClendon and vintage performer Dandy Wellington will discuss […]
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Online Exhibition: The Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties — Opens
Launches online March 15, 2021 The School of Graduate Studies and The Museum at FIT (MFIT) present The Roaring Twenties […]
Read moreHue Live: What Is Mexican Fashion? With Museum at FIT curator Tanya Melendez-Escalante ’04
Tanya Melendez-Escalante ’04 grew up in Mexico City and taught at Universidad Latinoamericana in Mexico before moving to New York […]
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Curating Her Own Career: Tanya Melendez-Escalante’s Exhibition in Mexico
As senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT (MFIT), Tanya Melendez-Escalante, also a graduate of […]
Read moreFIT Library Special Collections: Drawing Upon Inequities Panel Discussion
Please join FIT Library Special Collections and College Archives (SPARC) for an informative and spirited conversation on coping with and […]
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Podcasts by FIT Community Members Named “Best” by Vogue
Dressed: The History of Fashion, a podcast created and hosted by FIT Special Collections Associate April Calahan and FIT alumna […]
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Conserving a Chanel
The dress needed help. A 90-year-old, Art Deco–inspired masterpiece of beaded silk crepe by celebrated couturiere Gabrielle Chanel, it was […]
Read moreAnnual Fashion and Textile Studies Research Symposium: Clothing as Craft: People, Process, Product
Craft in clothing has been used to solidify communities and identities for millennia, emphasizing tradition, promoting resistance and social change, […]
Read moreExhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Closes
March 5–30, 2019 Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated […]
Read moreGrad Studies Invites: The Traphagen School: Designers in the Archive
This year’s Fashion and Textile Studies MA exhibition, The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion, explores the legacy of one of […]
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