Research by MFIT
Talks, Lectures + Papers
"Fashion Exhibitions: The Power of Communication" in ZoneModa Journal | July 2022 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties" (21:04) | Feb 2022 | Colleen Hill
"Shoes: The Collection of The Museum at FIT" (15:52) | Dec 2021 | Dr. Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
"Head to Toe" (27:25) | Dec 2021 | Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way
"Rose Motifs in the Collection of The Museum at FIT" (26:27) | Apr 2021 | Colleen Hill and Elizabeth Way
"Ballet Fashion" (1:01:16) | National Arts Club | May 2020 | Patricia Mears
"Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse" (23:57) | Mar 2020 | Patricia Mears
"Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT" (30:01) | Mar 2019 | Dr. Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
"Pink: The History of a Color" (23:36) | Oct 2018 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Fashion from the Extreme: The Poles, Highest Peaks, and Beyond" (17:42) | Oct 2017 | Patricia Mears
"A Queer History of Fashion" (5:13) | Nov 2013 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Tackling Tokenism and Diversity in Our Museum Collections" (1:25:06) | Costume Society of America | Sept 2020 | Elizabeth Way
"Why Fashion Matters" (45:04) | Rijksmuseum | Nov 2019 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Fashion as Language: The Role of Dress in Culture, History, and the Future: Interview with Dr. Valerie Steele" (47:40) | Forever Fab Podcast | Sept 2019 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Fashioning Identity: Gender" (50:09) | Highsnobiety Podcast | June 2019 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Fashioning Identity" (46:00) | Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University | Mar 2019 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Theory of What? The Present and the Future of Fashion Studies" (1:32:56) | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia | Dec 2018 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Is Fashion Art" (46:16) | Museum of Modern Art Vienna | 2012 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Spectacle: Fashion on Parade" (19:04) | Fashion in the Nineties MFIT Symposium | Feb 2022 | Patricia Mears
"Accessories 1800-1900" (10:16) | Jul 2021 | Elizabeth Way
"Accessories 1900-2000" (17:54) | Nov 2021 | Melissa Marra-Alvarez
"100 years of Fashion" Part One (19:13) | Jul 2020 | Michelle McVicker
"100 years of Fashion" Part Two (16:18) | Jul 2020 | Michelle McVicker
"Putting on the Ritz: Fashion and the Harlem Renaissance" (1:31:23)| The Harlem School of the Arts conversation | June 2020 | Elizabeth Way
"Comic Clothing in a Cultural Context" (17:00) | Women of Marvel podcast | Feb 2020 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"‘The Traces of Use,’ A Case Study of Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo and the Potentiality of Visibly Worn Dress" (21:47) | Fashion Unraveled Colloquium | 2018 | Michelle McVicker
"Mexican Rose" (22:13) | Pink Symposium | 2018 | Tanya Melendez
"Paris Fashion: A Cultural History" (45:11) | Fashion Culture talk | 2017 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"From Dressmakers to Designers" (17:18) | Black Fashion Designers Symposium | 2017 | Elizabeth Way
"The Little Black Dress" (1:20) | Valerie Steele | MoMA audio | 2016 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"The Little Black Dress" (10:40) | Valerie Steele | MoMA talk | 2016 | Dr. Valerie Steele
"Ravishing: the Rose in Fashion" (8:54) | Hat conservation | 2021 | Alison Castaneda
"Hang in There! Fashioning Storage Mounts for Costume" (9:35) | International Mountmakers Forum | 2020 | Ann Coppinger
"Jeans" (5:52) | Conservation treatment | 2016 | Nicole Bloomfield
"Lanvin dress" (3:53) | Conservation treatment | 2015 | Marjorie Jonas
"Poiret coat" (9:06) | Conservation treatment | 2015 | Nicole Bloomfield
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