Cross Pollination: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
March 27 - April 19, 2026
Cross-Pollination: Fashion and Psychoanalysis is The Museum at FIT's ninth collaborative workshop that brings together students and faculty from higher education institutions around the globe. For this year's project, students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (United States), Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico), and LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore) used MFIT's 2025 exhibition Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis as a springboard to research, ideate, design, and create garments, accessories, animations, publications, and more. Faculty members from the three schools connected their curricula to the following themes from the exhibition: The Naked Dreamer, Surrealism, the Mirror Stage, the Fragmented Body, the Gaze, Skin Ego, Bodies to Wear, and Ugly Emotions.
Nearly 200 students took part in this program. Classroom work took place during the fall of 2025. A curated selection of designs made by students from all three institutions, on display in Singapore January - February, 2026, travels to MFIT for this exhibition. To conclude the collaboration, a fashion show of the garments will take place in Monterrey in May. MFIT's goal is to advance knowledge of fashion, promote creative thinking, and provide a space for lifelong learning. Cross-Pollination offers an opportunity for students to collaborate with peers around the world in a classroom experience where museum educators and faculty collaborate to forge new pedagogical paths.
Organizers
The Museum at FIT
333 Education Department
Tanya Melendez-Escalante, Melissa Marra-Alvarez, Eileen Costa, and Frida McKeon Loyola
Exhibitions Department
Michael Goitia, Ryah Wolfe, Thomas Synnamon, Kenneth Wiesinger
Exhibition curator: Gabrielle Lauricella
Fashion Institute of Technology
Andrea Diodati, Fashion Design
Philippa Lindenthal, Fashion Design
Sarah Mullins, Footwear and Accessories Design
Lauren Zodel, Fashion Design
School of Fashion at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
Circe Henestrosa, Daniela Monasterios, Kathryn Shannon Sim, Charles Rezandi and Adrian Huang
Universidad de Monterrey
Marco Garrido, Rafael Hernández, and Santiago Utima.