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The Most Fashionable Museum in New York City June 5, 2013 JUNE EVENTS NEWSLETTER THE LATEST NEWS PUBLIC PROGRAMS Fashion Culture: Special Programs CURRENT EXHIBITION Cloud 9: Master of Fine Arts in Illustration Visual Thesis Exhibition CURRENT EXHIBITION Retrospective UPCOMING EXHIBITION A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk LINKS WE LIKE A world of fashion is on the web MUSEUM PUBLICATION Shoe Obsession MUSEUM INFORMATION THE LATEST NEWS ... What's Happening ... **Special Discount** The Museum of the City of New York is extending the MFIT community an exclusive discount for their talk on Stephen Burrows with Anna Sui and the Toledos! The event is tomorrow night (Thurs). Discount code is FITCC6. Enjoy! :) **Note For Visitors** This summer the restrooms off the Museum's lobby are being remodeled. We apologize for any inconvenience, however restrooms for Museum visitors are available across 27th street in the lobby of the Feldman building. Security guards are able to direct you. **TIME is on our side** The Twitter feed of The Museum at FIT (@TheMuseumatFIT) was named among TIME magazine’s 140 best of 2013! As the magazine writes: After consulting with TIME editors in every field from politics and sports to technology and entertainment, we’ve compiled a list of Twitter feeds that stand out for their humor, knowledge and personality. It’s not comprehensive—there are more deserving tweeters than we can tally, and all honorees from previous years have been excluded. But like a good tweet, we’ve boiled down the issue to its essence: 140 feeds in 14 categories that you should follow right away. (Link to list) PUBLIC PROGRAMS Fashion Culture: Special Programs Fashion Culture programs and events are free unless otherwise indicated, and are organized by The Museum at FIT to provide insightful and intriguing perspectives on the culture of fashion. Reservations are required. Space is limied. To RSVP for a program, Register Online Here Talk and Tour: RetroSpective Monday, June 10, 6 pm Join Emma McClendon for a tour of RetroSpective, an exhibition exploring fashion’s relationship with its own history, and the many designers who embrace the past to create reinterpretations of everything from crinolines to “flapper” dresses. The exhibition includes work by Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga, Norman Norell, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui, Walter Van Beirendonck, and artist Cat Chow. REGISTER NOW Talk and Tour: RetroSpective Wednesday, July 31, 10:30 am Join Ariele Elia for a tour of RetroSpective, an exhibition exploring fashion’s relationship with its own history, and the many designers who embrace the past to create reinterpretations of everything from crinolines to “flapper” dresses. The exhibition includes work by Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga, Norman Norell, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui, Walter Van Beirendonck, and artist Cat Chow. REGISTER NOW CURRENT EXHIBITION Cloud 9: Master of Fine Arts in Illustration Visual Thesis Exhibition June 8 - July 6, 2013 Cloud 9 represents the culminating body of work - a "visual thesis" - of the students of the MFA in Illustration program. The exhibition includes works-on-paper, digital painting, three-dimensional sculpture, and animation, all designed to address a myriad of markets. As diverse in their works as they are in their backgrounds, these nine students have a singular goal – to present visual stories. CURRENT EXHIBITION Retrospective Norman Norell, dress, red wool crepe and satin, 1962, USA, gift of Claudia Halley. May 22 - November 16, 2013 Retrospective explores fashion’s relationship with its own history. The speed of the fashion cycle is faster than ever, and yet, in the constant drive for newness, the past is often used as a point of reference. Many contemporary designers embrace looking back at fashion history as a fundamental part of the design process. In doing so, they create inventive and modern re-interpretations of everything from crinolines to “flapper” dresses. As cutting-edge designer Yohji Yamamoto once said, “Going to the future means you have to use your past.” Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the Museum’s permanent collection, Retrospective begins with a selection of fashions that references historical periods prior to the eighteenth century, including a 1981 gold lamé ensemble by Zandra Rhodes and a 1999 painted silk chiffon gown by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Couture, both of which draw inspiration from sixteenth-century England. The remainder of the exhibition showcases groupings of period fashions—from 18th century to grunge—and their more recent revivals. Curated by Jennifer Farley, the exhibition also includes work by innovative designers such as Norman Norell, Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui, Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga, Walter Van Beirendonck, and artist Cat Chow. Visit our website for more info and images . UPCOMING EXHIBITION A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk Jenny Shimizu, Helmut Red campaign. Photograph by Mark Seliger. September 13, 2013 - January 4, 2014 From Cristobal Balenciaga and Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Indeed, it is widely believed that most male fashion designers are gay. Is this just a stereotype? Or do gay men really have a special relationship with fashion? To what extent have lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people also made significant contributions to fashion? Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer) community, both pre- and post-Stonewall, and even as early as the eighteenth century. Yet surprisingly little has been researched about high fashion as a site of gay cultural production. A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk seeks to explore the “gayness” or “queerness” of fashion by drawing attention to the historic presence of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, and other “queer” people in the fashion system. The exhibition also looks at the creativity and resistance to oppression expressed by LGBTQ subcultural styles. Curated by Fred Dennis, senior curator of costume, and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, with exhibition design by award-winning architect Joel Sanders, the exhibition features approximately 100 ensembles spanning more than a century of fashion. Organized in roughly chronological order, the exhibition explores the history of modern fashion through the lens of gay and lesbian life and culture, addressing subjects including androgyny, dandyism, idealizing and transgressive aesthetic styles, and the influence of subcultural and street styles, including drag, leather, and uniforms. The exhibition will be accompanied by a symposium (November 8-9, 2013) and a scholarly, multi-author book published by Yale University Press, as well as a free public lecture series, exhibition tours, and an educational website, with the goal of helping to foster a climate of inclusion for those who have often been marginalized due to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gendered expression. The exhibition and programs are supported by The Diversity Council of FIT. Special thanks to the Advisory Committee. LINKS WE LIKE A world of fashion is on the web Who Watches the Watchmen? A super article/slideshow on fashion criticism and critics by the fashion blogger and fashion film expert, Diane Pernet. American Cowgirls of the 1940s A totally fab post from Messy Nessy Chic on cowgirls in the 1940s. Which pic is your favorite? The Great Gatsby's Fabulous Betrayal of 1920s Fashion Professor Deirdre Clemente (and FIT Grad student alum) reviews the costuming for the Great Gatsby for The Atlantic. The details of the new film's wardrobe aren't historically accurate, but its costumes successfully convey the glamour and decadence of the era for a 21st-century audience. MUSEUM PUBLICATION Shoe Obsession Book Cover This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes and other accessories. High-heeled shoes, in particular, have become the fashion accessory of the 21st century. Co-written by Colleen Hill and Valerie Steele, one of the world's leading historians of fashion and an authority on fashion accessories, the book features approximately 150 pairs of the most extreme and ultra-fashionable styles of the past 12 years, including work by such prominent designers as Manolo Blahnik, Pierre Hardy, Christian Louboutin and Bruno Frisoni for Roger Vivier, as well as shoes by influential design houses such as Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and Prada. Avant-garde styles by up-and-coming designers such as Japan's Kei Kagami and Noritaka Tatehana are also highlighted. Shoe Obsession examines recent extreme and fantastical shoe styles in relation to the history of high heels, the role of shoes as a reflection of their wearers' personality traits, and the importance of shoes in art and exhibitions. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs of spectacular contemporary shoe designs. Available from Yale University Press MUSEUM INFORMATION The Museum at FIT is dedicated to advancing knowledge of fashion through exhibitions, programs and publications. The Museum is open to the public free of charge, Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 8pm, and Saturday 10 am - 5pm. Located on the Southwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 27th Street in New York City, the museum can be reached by subway: 1, C, E, F, M, N, or R, and by bus: M20 and M23. Penn Station is close by at 31st Street for the Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit, and Amtrak. 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