MFIT on the Road
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The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions for use in exhibitions. Watch this space for venues featuring MFIT on the road.
The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions for use in exhibitions. Watch this space for venues featuring MFIT on the road.
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Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity Metropolitan Museum of Art February 26 – May 27, 2013 |
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 Afternoon dress - White cotton piqué and black cotton cording - USA - 1867 - P90.22.2, Museum Purchase. |
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity is a
revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists
and their contemporaries. Some eighty major figure paintings, seen in
concert with period costumes, accessories, fashion plates, photographs,
and popular prints, highlight the vital relationship between fashion and
art during the pivotal years, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, when
Paris emerged as the style capital of the world. The Museum at FIT lent the dress shown here.
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Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced The Museum of the City of New York March 22 – July 28, 2013 |
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 Stephen Burrows -Dress - Blue and multicolor wool - USA - Fall 1970 - 92.105.8, Gift of Stephen Burrows. |
Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced examines the work of the designer The New York Times called in 1977 the “brightest star of American fashion.” It looks at the period spanning the 1970s when Stephen Burrows’ meteoric rise to fame made him not only the first African-American designer to gain international stature, but a celebrated fashion innovator whose work helped define the look of a generation. Photographs, drawings, and original garments trace Burrows’ evolution from creating eclectic looks for his friends in the 1960s to his work with the chic 57th Street retailer Henri Bendel to the floor of Studio 54, as he dressed such 70s style icons as Cher, Liza Minnelli, and Diana Ross. The Museum at FIT has lent six Stephen Burrows objects to this exhibition; three of them are shown here. The Museum of the City of New York NYC http://www.mcny.org |
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 Evening Dress - Multicolor rayon jersey- USA - 1973 - 2000.97.1, Museum purchase. |
 Jacket - Multicolor suede - USA - Fall 1971 - 92.105.6, Gift of Stephen Burrows. |
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| Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion Museum of Art: Rhode Island School of Design April 28 – August 18, 2013 |
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The RISD Museum celebrates the dandy, tracing the variety of ways in which this personality has blazed through two centuries and investigating where he resides today. Rather than following strict definitions, Artist/Rebel/Dandy features myriad manifestations of the dandy’s style and persona, from the discreet sophistication and consummate elegance of Beau Brummell (1778–1840) to the romantics and revolutionaries of today—including Rick Owens, Patti Smith, Ouigi Theodore, and Waris Ahluwalia. The Museum at FIT has lent three objects to this exhibition; one of them is shown here. RISD Museum |
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Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren for World's End - Pants with suspenders - Off-white cotton - England - 1984 - 88.63.13, Gift of Alan Rosenberg. |
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| Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s The Museum of Chinese in America April 26 – September 29, 2013 |
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 Frank Brothers - Evening shoes - Silk brocade and gold metallic leather - USA - c.1932 - 89.154.22, Gift of Maria Burgaleta-Larson. |
Shanghai Glamour explores how Shanghai women and their fashionable dress epitomized the seduction and mystery of this legendary city as it was modernizing in the early 20th century. Shanghai was established as a treaty port in the nineteenth century and became a major modern metropolis by the 1920s, internationally known as “the Paris of the East.” The city’s identity was deeply associated with its women and their fashion. Their dresses and manners textured the city’s modern life and became the emblems of Shanghai modernity. Beyond the glamour, the changing styles of female clothing and the controversial images of modern women also manifested the social and political anxieties in the transitional period that ushered in new gender roles. The Museum at FIT has lent four objects to this exhibition; one of them is shown here. The Museum of Chinese in America |
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Hippie Chic Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 16 – November 11, 2013 |
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 Mr. Fish - man's jacket - England, c.1970 - 2008.15.1, Gift of Wendy Sacks and Joseph Holdner. |
The end of the 1960s and early 1970s was an exciting time for fashion as the counterculture’s challenges to authority expressed itself in new ways of thinking about dress. The emerging hippie culture rejected the dictates of Paris haute couture, adopting instead an eclectic, highly individual look, mixing vintage and ethnic clothing with fashions inspired by contemporary psychedelic Pop art, nature, fantasy, and ethnographic art. For the first time, trends percolated up from the streets to affect ready to wear and even haute couture. Hippie Chic celebrates the designs of innovative boutiques and young designers and includes about 50 ensembles, in materials (crushed velvet, eyelet, satin, leather), techniques and embellishments (tie-dye, patchwork, beads, and fringe), and styles from psychedelic to retro that made statements consonant with the era’s experimentation, theatricality, and freewheeling spirit. The Museum at FIT lent four objects to this exhibition; two of them are shown here. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, MA http://mfa.org/ |
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New Man - man's pants - France, 1970 - 91.111.9, Gift of John Brooks Adams. | ||
