Exhibitions
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FIT's School of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with The Museum at FIT, presents All That Glitters…, a virtual exhibition conceived and organized by graduate students in FIT's MA Fashion and Textiles Studies program. All that glitters is not gold—it can be any medium that catches the light, shines, and reflects. The post-World War II era saw a blossoming of new textiles and technologies that changed the relationship between fashion materials and light. All That Glitters… explores surfaces that shine, focusing on themes of material production, social and financial values, and conservation. It examines not only the bright side of these materials, but also their darker side–including their environmental impact and their use in protests, such as "glitter bombing."
Image: Paco Rabanne, evening dress, plastic and metal, 1969, France, gift of Montgomery Ward, 81.48.2

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis is the first exhibition to explore the complex relationship between fashion and psychoanalysis. Curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, the exhibition will feature approximately 100 looks by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianni and Donatella Versace, John Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Rick Owens, Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, and many more. Described by Suzy Menkes as "the Freud of Fashion," Steele has spent more than five years working on this exhibition and the accompanying book, which draws on the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas about sexuality and the unconscious, with sections devoted to themes such as the mirror stage, the skin ego, desire, and sexual difference.
Image: Photograph by Elizaveta Porodina of artist Alisa Gorshenina. Courtesy of photographer.
Art X Fashion

Image: Wales Bonner X Kerry James Marshall, cotton t-shirt reproducing Lost Boys: AKA Black Sonny (1993) by Kerry James Marshall, spring 2023, museum purchase, 2022.55.1

MFIT on the Road

There’s no shame in living in the past