Past Fashion Culture Events
Fashion Culture programs are organized by The Museum at FIT to provide new perspectives on the culture of fashion.
2025
Spring
- Styled for Survival: How Music and Fashion Converge | event photos
- Objects of Wonder for Person Place Thing | event photos + podcast episode
- All That Glitters... Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections | event photos
- Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing | event photos
- Empresses of Seventh Avenue | event photos
- Symposium: Wondrous Objects | event page
- Fashion at the 1925 Art Deco Exhibition | event photos
2024
Fall
- Black Designers: Leading New Fashion Models | event photos
- Symposium: Africa's Fashion Diaspora | event page + event photos
- CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion | event photos + podcast episode
- Yakampot: Fashion and Social Responsibility | event photos
- Crafting Circular Solutions in Fashion Retail | video
Spring
- Latinx Fashion Networking Event | speaker bios + event photos
- Symposium: New Directions in Fashion Research | event page + event photos
- Parts of Fashion: Curating in Focus | event photos
- Mondrian's Dress | event photos
- Curating Italian Fashion. Heritage, Industry, Institutions | video
2023
Fall
- Food & Fashion According to the Taste Curators | video + event photos
- Symposium: Food & Fashion | event page + event photos
- Shoes A–Z: The Collection of the Museum at FIT | video + event photos
- Color in Indigenous Textiles | event photos
- Fashion's Role in Black Protest, 1863–1963 | video + event photos
- Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith | video
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 | video
- Christian Dior: Destiny in America | video
- 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
- Symposium: Stilettos to Sneakers: A Virtual Shoe | 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
- Symposium: Ballerina | event page + video playlist (YouTube)
- Suits, Power, and Gender | event photos
- Dapper Dan in conversation with Valerie Steele | video + event photos
- Pioneering African American Ballerinas | event photos
2019
Fall
- André Leon Talley in conversation with Valerie Steele | video + event photos
- Building Community Through Fashion in Harlem | video
- Zandra Rhodes: 50 Fabulous Years in Fashion | video + event photos
- Technology and the Future of Fashion | event photos + video
- Versaille '73: American Runway Revolution Q&A | video
- Person Place Thing | event photos + podcast
- Work! A Queer History of Modeling | video
- The Venezuelan Diaspora and Fashion | event photos + video
- Christian Louboutin in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele | podcast + event photos + video
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
- Symposium: Exhibiting Fashion | event page + video playlist (YouTube)
- 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
- Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man | video
- Proust's Duchess | video
- Symposium: Pink | event page + YouTube playlist
* Panavision in Pink | podcast - Worn In New York | video
- A.F. Vandevorst: Ende Neu | video
- What is Caribbean Fashion? | video
- The History of Pink | video + event photos + podcast
- Fashion Unraveled Colloquium: Memory, Wear, and Imperfection in Dress | event page + videos
* One Dress, Multiple Stories | podcast - Narciso Rodriguez in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele | video + event photos
Spring
- Film: Franca: Chaos and Creation | event photos
- Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de la Falaise and The House of Saint Laurent | event photos
- Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 | video
- Film: Straight/Curve | video + event photos
- Symposium: Fashion and Physique | event page + video
* Modest Body Politics | podcast
* Designing with Inclusivity in Mind | podcast
* Fashioning Today’s Woman | podcast - How To Slay | video
- Norell: Master of American Fashion | event photos + video + podcast
2017
Fall
- Une Femme Française | video
- Film Screening: Unzipped and Q&A with Douglas Keeve | event photos + video
- Maria Cornejo: Zero | event photos + video
- Symposium: Fashion, Science, and Exploration | event page + event photos
* Fashion from the Extreme | podcast
* The Explorer's Club: A Brief History | podcast
* Norma Kamali Through The Years | podcast - Paris Fashion: A Cultural History | event photos + video + podcast
- The Sari Series: An Anthology of Drape | video
Spring
- Fashion and Celebrity in 1960s France | event photos
- Fashion and Film: The 1960s | video
- New Directions in Menswear | video + podcast
- Tracy Reese in Conversation with Elizabeth Way | event photos + video + podcast
- Symposium: Black Fashion Designers | event page + video
* Careers in Fashion Media | podcast
* On Patrick Kelly | podcast
* The Influence of Hip-Hop on Fashion | podcast
2016
Fall
- Fashion in the Social Media Era | video + podcast
- Field to Frock: Lessons from the Slow Food Movement | video
- Film Screening: Latin American Film Festivals | event photos
- Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being | event write-up + video
- Thom Browne in Conversation with Stefano Tonchi | event photos + video + podcast
- Concert: Music and The Countess Greffulhe | event photos
- Symposium: Proust's Muse | event page + event photos
* The Influence of the Countess Greffulhe on Contemporary Fashion | podcast
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 photos + video
- Hijacking the Runway with Teri Agins | video
- Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis | video
2015
Fall
- Stella Jean in conversation with Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way | event photos + video
- Symposium: Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch | event page [tbd] + event photos
- Sybilla in conversation with Valerie Steele | event photos + video
- Global Fashion Capitals fashion show and student fair | event page [tbd] + event photos + video
- Instagram and Fashion | event photos
- Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present, and Future | event photos
- #FashionDiplomacy: The Case Study of Emerging Fashion Capitals in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine | video
- Haute Couture in Paris 1960–1968 | video
June
- Agatha Ruiz de la Prada in Conversation with Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way | event photos + video
Spring
- The Battle of Versailles: Robin Givhan in conversation with Patricia Mears | event photos + video + podcast
- Roxanne Lowit on Yves Saint Laurent | event photos
- Future Fakes | event photos + video
- Designing Costumes for Ballets with a Twist | video
2014
Fall
- Team Vicious Stepping Workshop | event photos + video
- Misty Copeland in conversation with Valerie Steele | event photos + video + podcast
- Symposium: Dance and Fashion | event page + YouTube playlist
* From Sylph to Swan: The Tutu and Fashion | podcast
* Ballet Shoes: Function, Fashion, and Fetish | podcast - Madison Avenue Fashion Heritage Week | event page
- The Future of Fashion Tech | video
- Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award: Carolina Herrera | event photos
2013
Fall
- Symposium: A Queer History of Fashion | event page
* A Queer History of Fashion | podcast
2012
Fall
- Five Years of Unisex: Rad Hourani | event photos
- Swedish Fashion: H&M, Acne, and Others | event photos
- Symposium: Ivy Style | event page
- Designers and Books | event page
- The Model Alliance | event photos
- Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award: Oscar de la Renta | event photos
Spring
- Franca Sozzani at The Museum at FIT | video
- Almodóvar and Fashion | event photos
- Stan Herman: The CFDA at 50 | event photos
- Diane von Furstenberg: The CFDA at 50 | event photos
2011
Fall
- Theyskens/Identity | event photos
- Simon Doonan: Being an Icon | event photos
- Symposium: Fashion Icons and Insiders | event page
Spring
- Michael Kors Luncheon | event page
- Christian Cota Atelier Visit | event page
- Couture Council Luncheon with Ruben Toledo | event page
- Francisco Costa Studio Visit for Couture Council Members | event page
- Minimalism and Fashion | event photos
- TOKYO FASHION FESTA NY Part 2: Cosplay | event page
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