The founders of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture established an exclusive trade union in 1868 made up of fashion houses that produced one of a kind garments of the highest quality for their clients – haute couture. These days, the phrase haute couture is nothing more than a buzzword and is often used … Continue reading
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FIT EXHIBITION: His and Hers
November 30, 2010 – May 10, 2011 His & Hers explores the relationship between gender and fashion over the past 250 years. Clothing can act as an immediate signifier of gender – however, while making distinctions between “masculine” and “feminine” styles of clothing may seem natural, gendering is not a biological phenomenon. While much of … Continue reading
EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT: An Other Fashion: Claiming America through
The description of the project is below as well as a call for donations to the exhibition. Please forward or link this to any group or individual you think might have objects that would enhance this exhibition. Please consider cross-posting or linking to this post on your blogs. The direction of the exhibition will continue … Continue reading
Eco-Fashion: Going Green Exhibition
Eco-Fashion: Going Green Fashion & Textile History Gallery May 26 – November 13, 2010 The Museum at FIT presents Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition exploring the evolution of the fashion industry’s multifaceted and complex relationship with the environment. By examining the past two centuries of fashion’s good—and bad— environmental and ethical practices, Eco-Fashion: Going Green … Continue reading
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Fashion for the High Street
Closing Date: Monday 26th May 2010 Background Applications are invited for this AHRC-funded three year collaborative doctoral award, entitled ‘Fashion for the High Street. The design and making of menswear in Leeds 1945-1980’, tenable in the School of History at the University of Leeds, in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries. This project will investigate … Continue reading
Gazette du Bon Ton
Palmer and Mull Galleries Kent State University Museum E. Main Street & S. Lincoln Street Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 June 25, 2009, to May 30, 2010 Curator: Dr. Anne Bissonnette Between November 1912 and December 1925, with a hiatus during World War I between summer 1915 and January 1920, the Gazette du Bon Ton sought to … Continue reading
Civil War fashion from Bentonville Battlefield re-enactors
FOUR OAKS, N.C. – Even as soldiers battled in wool flannel uniforms all year, Civil War-era ladies wore wool all year, too. At this weekend’s re-enactment of the Battle of Bentonville (http://www.nchistoricsites.org/bentonvi), Hilda Mariquez and other female re-enactors will be decked out in boots, hoops, corsets and petticoats that may be topped with nets or … Continue reading
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
May 5, 2010–August 15, 2010 Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor Learn more about a two-day symposium hosted by the Brooklyn Museum and The Costume Institute at the Met. American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at … Continue reading
Upcoming Exhibitions
The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity May 5, 2010–August 15, 2010 Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor Museum at FIT, NYC Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague Netherlands Voici Paris: Haute Couture Will run until 6th June 2010 Continue reading
Object of Fashion 