American Style Symposium 2009
| Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009 American Style is The Museum at FIT's eighth annual, two-day symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion. Designers, scholars, authors, and curators will discuss fashion of the Americas and explore themes ranging from the diversity of the American fashion industry to the unique characteristics of New York fashion. The symposium will also feature conversations with some of the most innovative American designers working today. Speakers include: Van Dyk Lewis, Hip-hop Fashion: The Psycho Mind and Body Drop David Colman, Prep-posterous: How history, mythology, race and fashion have clashed and colluded to create today's Prep Revival Pamela Golbin, A French View of American Fashion Nina Garcia, Maria Cornejo, and Christian Cota: Latin America and Fashion Caroline Milbank: The Origin of the American Look Kohle Yohannan: The Small Town Girl and The Femme Fatale: Claire McCardell & Valentina Yeholee Teng: In Conversation with Susan Sidlauskas |
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Two-day schedule / Speaker biographies / Registration Form
COST: General public: $100 for both days. (No single-day registrations.)
Free to all students everywhere, thanks to the Coby Foundation.
Free to members of the Couture Council
10% discount to members of the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum
Free to FIT faculty and staff with a current ID.
REGISTER: Registration is required. Download the form here. Walk-ins admitted, space permitting.
LOCATION: American Style will be held in Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium, on the second floor of FIT’s Marvin Feldman Center, on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in New York City.
Media Contact: 212.217.4700 or press@fitnyc.edu.
1stdibs.com, the online resource for antique and vintage design, is a main sponsor of both the exhibition, American Beauty, and the American Style symposium. The Coby Foundation, a New York-based organization that supports exhibitions and educational programming that combine excellent scholarship and effective interpretation of the needle arts, including fashion, is providing additional support for the exhibition and symposium.
