Category Archives: Symposium

MODERN METROPOLIS: The New York Skyline in Textile Design, 1890-1940

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Keren Ben-Horin

Next Saturday the Fashion and Textiles Studies program at FIT will hold their annual symposium. To get you excited, we will share some of the papers that will be presented in the week to come.  We hope to see you there. The … Continue reading →

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Shop Girls: Department Stores and the Fashionable Working Woman

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Keren Ben-Horin

Next Saturday the Fashion and Textiles Studies program at FIT will hold their annual symposium. To get you excited, we will share some of the papers that will be presented, in the week to come.  We hope to see you there. The … Continue reading →

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Clothed in the Cosmos: Astronomy in Textile & Fashion Design, 1920-1945

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Keren Ben-Horin

Next Saturday the Fashion and Textiles Studies program at FIT will hold their annual symposium. To get you excited, we will share some of the papers that will be presented in the week to come.  We hope to see you there. The event … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Modes of Modernity

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Keren Ben-Horin

  We are so thrilled about the topic of this year’s annual symposium organized by the students of FIT’s MA program Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice. The students will explore modernity and modernism in 20th century fashion in eleven … Continue reading →

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Downtown, Uptown: From the Dry Goods Store to the Palace of Consumption- Part II

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Keren Ben-Horin

This is part two of a paper I presented last May at our annual symposium. You can read the first part here. By the late 1850s the Grand Street area was established as the new shopping district, but society had … Continue reading →

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Downtown, Uptown: From the Dry Goods Store to the Palace of Consumption- Part I

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Keren Ben-Horin

This is a two parts post,  presented first in May 2013 at the our annual symposium. In 1835, the wealthy merchant Seabury Tredwell bought the house on 29 East Fourth Street in New York City. “The elegance and beauty of this … Continue reading →

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Lady of the Daisies

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Keren Ben-Horin

I have mentioned here and here that for quite some time I have been researching the history of the luxury beachwear brand Gottex, and specifically the work if its founder and designer of many years Lea Gottlieb. I am thrilled to share with … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow: Fashion & Music Symposium at FIT

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Keren Ben-Horin

Join us tomorrow! Here are the abstracts for some of the papers that will be presented tomorrow: The Art of Exaggeration: The Fashion & Costume of Gaby Deslys A New Mode: Fashionable Women of the Theremin Callas Behavior: Fashion and … Continue reading →

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Fashion & Music Symposium- Wranglers and Rhinestones: Men’s Western Wear in Country Music

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Keren Ben-Horin

Wranglers and Rhinestones: Men’s Western Wear in Country Music By Jessica Pushor The western wear introduced by the singing cowboys in the 1930’s has changed not only the clothing of country music performers and listeners but also the very identity … Continue reading →

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Fashion & Music Symposium- A New Mode: Fashion, Women, and the Theremin

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Keren Ben-Horin

A New Mode: Fashion, Women, and the Theremin Patrice George When the theremin, the world’s first electronic musical instrument, was introduced to New York audiences in1928, some though it was just an amusing experiment. Its creator, Russian science professor Leon … Continue reading →

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