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Video: This is how The Museum at FIT stores its clothing

In this video, The Museum at FIT shows how it stores its fashion collections. Curator Ann Coppinger explains how two custom hanging brackets for recently acquired Comme des Garçons ensembles were made. Watch the video below. Source: The Museum at FIT via YouTube

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Video: Dr Valerie Steele discusses fashion and political power

In an interview with Dr Valerie Steele, journalist Robin Givhan, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, discussed the current relationship between fashion, politics and power. Watch the video below. Source: The Museum at FIT via YouTube Photo credit: Unsplash

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FIT’s The Body; Fashion and Physique is A Perfect Fit

The Body: Fashion and Physique, the exhibition at The Museum at FIT which opened this week puts a fitting cap on a year of remarkable activity within society at large around female empowerment. One could argue that the show highlights the myriad ways fashion has oppressively wrought its misogyny on females throughout history or one could marvel...

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The Museum at FIT presents an ode to ´The Women of Harper´s Bazaar´

In addition to being one of the most renowned fashion magazines, Harper´s Bazaar is also the oldest. The magazine landed American bookstores for the first time in 1867 as a weekly title which showcased the latest fashion trends to women from the middle and upper class. n honour of the 150th birthday of Harper´s Bazaar in 2017, The Museum at FIT...