"American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion" Exhibition
The Museum at FIT
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The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents "American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion," the first exhibition to explore how the "philosophy of beauty" is allied to the craft of dressmaking. Each of the 75 looks on display was chosen to exemplify the relationship between technical ingenuity and artistic excellence. Curator Patricia Mears has focused on approximately 25 American fashion designers, ranging from the obscure, such as Jessie Franklin Turner, whose work dates from the late 1910s, to rising stars of the present day, such as the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte.
[Image: Halston "American Beauty Rose" (1980) gown in red silk organza. Photograph: William Palmer]
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Schedule
from November 06, 2009 to January 09, 2010