The Museum at FIT presents Fashion & Politics, a new exhibition in its Fashion and Textile History Gallery. Fashion & Politics is an analysis of added than 200 years of backroom as bidding through fashion.
The Museum at FIT presents Fashion & Politics, a new exhibition in its Fashion and Textile History Gallery. Fashion & Politics is an analysis of added than 200 years of backroom as bidding through fashion. In this setting, the appellation "politics" not alone refers to the maneuverings of government, but aswell encompasses cultural change, animal codes, and amusing progress. Fashion & Politics displays how, throughout history, appearance has been a average for carrying political ideologies and accompanying amusing ethics by acclamation such important capacity as nationalism, feminism, and aboriginal identity, as able-bodied as cogent contest and subcultural movements. Featuring added than 100 costumes, textiles, and accessories displayed in archival order, Fashion & Politics reveals the affluent history of backroom in fashion.
Mars of Asheville, dress, ablaze amber cardboard printed with red ''NIXON'' and fleet stars, 1967-1968, U.S. / James Sterling, dress, cardboard printed with angel of Hubert Humphrey, 1968, U.S
The exhibition's anterior arcade explores the affair of American nationalism. Featured are a woman's costume, about 1889, printed with an American banderole motif, as able-bodied as Catherine Malandrino's iconic Flag Dress, beat by abundant celebrities and socialites to accurate bellicism afterwards 9/11, and afresh in acknowledgment to the celebrated 2008 presidential campaign. Also featured is an ''IKE'' dress from the 1956 Eisenhower campaign, a ''NIXON'' cardboard dress, and memorabilia from the 2008 presidential campaigns.
Following the introduction, the exhibition presents an overview of appearance and accompanying bolt and accessories that illustrates the affiliation of appearance and backroom from the nineteenth aeon to the present day. This begins with a attending at the role of appearance in nineteenth aeon cultural and chic politics. For example, a neoclassically aggressive gown, about 1805, conveys autonomous ethics through the average of fashion. Also on appearance are examples of backward nineteenth aeon women's sportswear, including a tailored bicycling ensemble and gym suit, which were aggressive by beforehand styles of ameliorate dress such as the disconnected brim and the bloomer.
Late nineteenth and aboriginal twentieth aeon ''Aesthetic'' dress--a anatomy of aboriginal countercultural style--rejected the adamant contour of Victorian fashions in favor of looser-fitting garments. Examples of this are apparent in designs by Liberty of London and Mariano Fortuny that accent health, comfort, and a adroit appearance.
Also featured is a alternation of bolt that account the amusing and political developments of the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century. These cover a Communist advertising bolt from 1920s Russia, an anti-Prohibition bandage repeating the words ''Repeal the 18th Amendment,'' and a depression-era bolt advantaged Harvest (from one of FDR's New Deal programs).
The agenda continues with beheld representations of bellicism during World War II, which are represented by altar that ambit from a brace of red, white, and abject covering heels adorned with metal stars to a boastful ''Victory" scarf. A denim "Rosie the Riveter" branch jumpsuit is on appearance as an archetype of the anatomic plan abrasion women adopted while accidental to the war effort. In contrast, women who enlisted in the
W.A.V.E.S. analysis of the U.S. Navy were outfitted in uniforms by American clothier Mainbocher, a artist of the accomplished caliber.
The post-World War II baby-boom bearing came of age in the 1960s--a decade of youth, technology, amplitude exploration, and beginning animal revolution. Capturing the affection of the era were designers such as Pierre Cardin, Andre Courrèges, and Rudi Gernreich, all of whom accept apparel on display. Gernreich already declared that his designs were both appearance and amusing commentary--none added so than his acclaimed topless bathing suit, the "Monokini," which is featured in the exhibition.
As it moves into the additional bisected of the twentieth century, the exhibition shows that the use of political and amusing adumbration was acceptable added absolute in fashion. On affectation are examples from Vivienne Tam's arguable 1995 "Mao" Collection, which acclimated a awful answerable advocate image--the face of Communist baton Mao Zedong--to animadversion on Chinese political history. Set adjoin a appearance background, Stephen Sprouse's destructive admiration to the Declaration of Independence alludes to the circuitous accord amid government and the military.
Present-day fashions reflect a renewed absorption in politics, sparked in ample allotment by the acclamation of Barack Obama, the United States' aboriginal African-American president. Just as Obama's attack centered on such socially answerable words as "progress" and "change," abounding abreast designers are currently application appearance as a average for adopting political and amusing acquaintance and announcement environmentalism. The Danish appearance casting NOIR works with acceptable abstracts and fair-trade practices to alloy affluence and composure with amusing responsibility. On addition note, dresses from Alexandre Herchcovitch's bounce 2009 accumulating advantaged "Army of Love" were aggressive by "politically troubled, foreign-ruled, war-torn countries." These examples are a allotment of the abounding means that appearance continues to effectively bright our apropos about amusing issues such as war, all-around warming, and bread-and-butter uncertainty.
Fashion and Politics is organized by Melissa Marra and Jennifer Farley, alternating with Colleen Hill, Harumi Hotta, and Lynn Weidner. The exhibition will be on appearance from July 7, 2009 through November 7, 2009 in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery at The Museum at FIT.
The Fashion and Textile History Gallery presents biannual exhibitions analytical aspects of the accomplished 250 years of fashion. Exhibitions are curated alone from The Museum at FIT's all-encompassing collection. Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Couture Council.
A FASHION MUSEUM
The Museum at FIT is the alone building in New York City committed alone to the art of fashion. Best accepted for its avant-garde and award-winning exhibitions, which accept been declared by Roberta Smith in The New York Times as "ravishing," the building has a accumulating of added than 50,000 apparel and accessories dating from the eighteenth aeon to the present. Like added appearance museums, such as the Musée de la Mode, the Mode Museum and the Museo de la Moda, The Museum at FIT collects, conserves, documents, exhibits, and interprets fashion. The museum's mission is to advanced ability of appearance through exhibitions, publications, and accessible programs. Visit www.fitnyc.edu/museum.
The building is allotment of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a academy of art and design, business and technology educating added than 10,000 acceptance annually. FIT, a academy of the State University of New York (SUNY), offers 44 majors arch to the AAS, BFA, BS, MA, and MPS degrees. Visit www.fitnyc.edu.
The Couture Council is a associates accumulation of appearance enthusiasts that helps abutment the exhibitions and programs of The Museum at FIT. The Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion is accustomed to a called artist at a account bologna every September. For advice on the Couture Council, alarm 212 217.4532 or e-mail couturecouncil (at) fitnyc (dot) edu.
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Admission is free.
PHOTO CREDIT
Please acclaim all photographs: Photo by Irving Solero, address of The Museum at FIT, New York
Contact:
Cheri Fein
Executive Director of Public and Media Relations
212 217.4700
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