Past Fashion Culture Events

2024

Spring

  • Parts of Fashion: Curating in Focus | event photos
  • Mondrian's Dress | event photos
  • Curating Italian Fashion. Heritage, Industry, Institutions

2023

Fall

Spring

  • Symposium: Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style | event page + event photos + YouTube playlist
  • Fashion is Spinach: The Life and Work of Elizabeth Hawes | video
  • Blancopop: Styling Celebrities | video
  • Rebels with Janet Beckman
  • Christian Dior: Destiny in America 
  • Anna Sui: Fashion Design and Interior Decoration | video + article  + event photos

2022

Fall

  • Maria Grazia Chiuri in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele | video
  • ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Symposium | event page + YouTube playlist
  • Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look | video + event photos
  • Nicole Miller in conversation with Valerie Steele | video + event photos
  • Off-site Event: Dance, NYC Street Style, and Hip Hop 
  • Virtual Symposium: Material Evidence: Assessing Risk in Museum Collections | event page + YouTube playlist
  • Misa Hylton in conversation with Elena Romero | video + event photos 

Spring

  • House of Gucci with Sara G. Forden and Teri Agins | video
  • Freddie Leiba in conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • Versace: The Complete Collections Tim Blanks in conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • Virtual Symposium: Fashion in the Nineties  | event page + YouTube playlist

2021

Fall

  • Stilettos to Sneakers: A Virtual Shoe Symposium | event page + YouTube playlist
  • Catwalks and Collecting: Alexander Fury on Westwood and Galliano | video
  • Byron Lars in Conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • Gabriela Hearst in Conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • From Goodwill to Grunge: The Joyful Rebellion of Vintage Fashion | video
  • Black Designers in American Fashion: From Enslaved Makers to Streetwear | video

Spring

  • Alexander McQueen: Unseen | video
  • Symposium: Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion | event page + YouTube playlist
  • From Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz and Black Glamour | video
  • Curating Frida Kahlo: Fashion & Prosthetics | video
  • Stella Jean in conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon | video

2020

Fall

  • Fashion Victims: Dressing Up the Death Drive | video
  • Lauren Fay in conversation with Ronald van der Kemp | video
  • Jeffrey Gibson and Korina Emmerich in Conversation with Regan de Loggans | video
  • Fashion and Political Power with Robin Givhan and Valerie Steele | video
  • Stefano Tonchi and Grazia D’Annunzio in Conversation About Power in Fashion | video
  • Fashion Metropolis Berlin | video
  • Prabal Gurung in conversation with Valerie Steele | video

Spring

2019

Fall

Spring

  • Liya Kebede in conversation with Elizabeth Way | video + podcast
  • Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era | video
  • Charles James: The Couture Secrets of Shape | video
  • 50 Years of The Museum at FIT: Fashion as Cultural Heritage | video
  • Film: Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco Q&A | video
  • Exhibiting Fashion Symposium | event page + YouTube playlist
    50 Years of The Museum at FIT | podcast
    Scholarship and Curation | podcast

2018

Fall

Spring

2017

Fall

Spring

2016

Fall

June

  • Pierre Hardy in conversation with Colleen Hill | event photos

Spring

  • Rag & Bone in conversation with Emma McClendon | video
  • Romaine Brooks: A life | video
  • The Looks of Love | video
  • This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour | video
  • True Style: The History & Principles of Classic Menswear | video
  • Collaboration in Fashion | video
  • Fairy Tales School Program | event page + event photos
  • Fairy Tale Imagery: Natalie Frank and Kirsty Mitchell in conversation with Colleen Hill | event photos + video
  • 21st-Century Denim | event photosvideo
  • Hijacking the Runway with Teri Agins | video
  • Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis | video

2015

Fall

June

  • Agatha Ruiz de la Prada in Conversation with Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way | event photos + video

Spring

2014

Fall

2013

Fall

  • A Queer History of Fashion Symposium | event page
    A Queer History of Fashion | podcast

2012

Fall

Spring

2011

Fall

Spring

2010

Fall

  • BALENCIAGA: Spanish Master - Hamish Bowles | event page
  • In Conversation with Julie Gilhart | event page
  • Symposium: Japan Fashion Now | event page
  • Matthew Williamson and Laura Brown in Conversation with Patricia Mears | event page
  • Lolita Tea Party | event page
  • Couture Council Fashion Visionary Award: Karl Lagerfeld | event page

Spring

  • TOKYO FASHION FESTA: A Fashion Show | event page

2009

Fall

  • Symposium: American Style | event page
  • Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award: Dries Van Noten | event page
  • The Mexican Fashion Revolution with Carla Fernandez | video

Spring

  • Roxanne Lowit in conversation with Valerie Steele | video
  • Symposium: Subculture and Style | event photos