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Current
September 18 - December 29, 2024
Africa's Fashion Diaspora
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Current
Bloomberg Connects Digital Guide
A Closer Look: Highlights from Africa's Fashion Diaspora
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UPCOMING
February 19 – April 20, 2025
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities
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The Most Fashionable Museum in New York City

Best known for its innovation and award-winning exhibitions, the museum has a permanent collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the eighteenth century  to the present.

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The museum's online collections feature more than 2,500 object images as well as installation images from over 100 past exhibitions.

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Get inspired by the museum's current and upcoming exhibitions, such as "Africa's Fashion Diaspora"!

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Listen to our Fashion Culture Podcast

Tune into our monthly podcast series featuring lectures and conversations about fashion.

The 2024 Couture Council Luncheon

MFIT honored Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer at the fashion house JACQUEMUS, with its 2024 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion during its annual luncheon on September 4, 2024. View photos from the event on Flickr!

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Current Museum at FIT Lobby/Goodman Resource Center November 2 – December 8, 2024

This Must Be The Place

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The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Museum at FIT proudly present the Photography and Related Media BFA Junior exhibition: This Must Be The Place. This collection, from 42 students, showcases photo based installations ranging from the documentation of intimate life, directed staged narrative tableaus, and visual representations of conceptual ideas. This vast scope of work reflects contemporary trends of fine art photography, showcasing individual creative vision, while reflecting the time and place we all inhabit.

This Must Be the Place is a student led exhibition, produced and created in the Photographic Concepts and Exhibition course where throughout the semester, students produce photographs to push their technical and creative abilities, as well as working collaboratively in committees to bring this show to life.

Image: Coral Day, Jan Edward, Fabiana Torres

MFIT NEWS
MFIT NEWS

The Museum at FIT congratulates Elizabeth Way, recipient of the 2024 Costume Society of America Millia Davenport Publication Award!

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Looking for a longer read?

Africa's Fashion Diaspora is accompanied by a multi-author valume edited by Elizabeth Way and published by Yale University Press. The publication is now available for puchase.

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MFIT on the Road

The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions for use in exhibitions. Check out what venue is featuring MFIT on the road.
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Anna Sui, set, fall 1997, USA. Gift of Anna Sui. 2022.70.2

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