Monday, September 25, 2023 – GRAB SOME MOUTHWATERING FASHIONS AT FIT

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

FOOD AND FASHION

MONDAY,  SEPTEMBER 25,  2023

MUSEUM AT

FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLGY
 

ISSUE#  1083

Moschino Gown, 2014

I usually pass by the FIT campus when the museum is closed. The other day I saw it was open and who can resist an exhibit about food and fashion.

Both food and fashion are central to our daily lives. They speak to people’s most basic needs while also expressing our individual and cultural identities. The exhibition Food & Fashion explores how food themes and motifs are used to comment on critical topics from luxury, gender, and consumerism to sustainability, social activism, and body politics. Food has influenced fashion design from the eighteenth-century to today. So while the connection between the two genres is hardly new – think of woven pomegranates, embroidered ears of wheat, or fruit-trimmed hats – just this year, in 2023, the New York Times reported that food motifs are “the new florals” in fashion. Food & Fashion is an exciting and timely exhibition that includes over eighty garments and accessories by designers including Chanel, Moschino, and Stella McCartney. It is a multifaceted look at how intertwined these genres are and what they can express about our culture and society.

Food & Fashion is co-curated by Melissa Marra-Alvarez, curator of education and research, and Elizabeth Way, associate curator of costume at MFIT.

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