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Author Archives: Keren Ben-Horin
December Treasure of the Month
What are you wearing to your New Year’s Eve party? undecided? Here are some ideas from the Bergdorf Goodman Archives, now at FIT’s Special Collections. These dresses and others were available for customers to order through Bergdorf’s Custom Salon from … Continue reading
Why should we go on consuming the past?
In the January issue of Vanity Fair, novelist and journalist Kurt Anderson points to the curios standstill of popular culture in the past twenty years. This is a mind-blowing article that should be read and considered by those who create our … Continue reading
What They Wore- The Study of Dress in European Paintings
For our class of History Through the Nineteenth Century we were asked to analyze dress in a chosen painting from the 1400s to the 1800s with the aim to determine if the painter could be considered a valuable source for … Continue reading
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New Exhibition: Incomparable Women of Style
Incomparable Women of Style Selections from the Rose Hartman Photography Archives, 1977-2011 On View in FIT’s Gladys Marcus Library November 4, 2011-January 20, 2012 (text from press release)Photographer Rose Hartman has been chronicling iconic moments in fashion, style, and culture for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Anna Yanofsky, Karen Cannell, photography, Rose Hartman, Special Collections, Studio 54
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Exhibition: Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style
Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style at the International Center of Photography, September 9-January 8, 2012 (from the exhibition’s website) In the ten years since Glenda Bailey became Editor in Chief of Harper’s Bazaar, she and Creative Director Stephen Gan have … Continue reading
Exhibition: Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones (from the exhibition’s website) Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones—a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Stephen Jones, the world’s foremost hat designer—is at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York … Continue reading
Exhibition Review: Daphne Guinness
By Fiona Tedds ‘I don’t do event dressing, because every day is an event.’ Daphne Guinness. In a world where the art of getting dressed is often overlooked, it is thrilling to know that so long as people like Daphne … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander McQueen, Azzedine Alaia, Daphne Guinness, Gareth Pugh, Isabella Blow, Karl Lagerfeld, MFIT, Rick Owens, Valerie Steele
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Books Books Books
This fall there is abundance of new fashion-related books: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (Abrams) Written by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who also produced a documentary about Diana Vreeland and is married to her grandson Alexander. About the book … Continue reading
New Exhibition: Charles James: Genius Reconstructed
On October 22nd the Chicago History museum will open the exhibition Charles James: Genius Reconstructed curated by Timothy Long, who I interviewed here last year. The exhibition features fifteen iconic dresses from the museum’s collection. Out of these dresses four … Continue reading
October Treasure of the Month
Bonnie Cashin Sketch Collection At Special Collections and FIT Archive Bonnie Cashin, born in Fresno, California in 1908, had a very successful costume and clothing design career spanning sixty years. Cashin began designing for herself at an early age, working … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonnie Cashin, Coach Leather, Sills and Co., Special Collections
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ON PINS AND NEEDLES 