Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009
American Style is The Museum at FIT’s eighth annual, two-day symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion. Designers, scholars, authors, and curators will discuss fashion of the Americas and explore themes ranging from the diversity of the American fashion industry to the unique characteristics of New York fashion. The symposium will also feature conversations with some of the most innovative American designers working today. Speakers include:
Van Dyk Lewis, Hip-hop Fashion: The Psycho Mind and Body Drop
David Colman, Prep-posterous: How history, mythology, race and fashion have clashed
and colluded to create today’s Prep Revival
Pamela Golbin, A French View of American Fashion
Nina Garcia, Maria Cornejo, and Christian Cota: Latin America and Fashion
Caroline Milbank: The Origin of the American Look
Kohle Yohannan: The Small Town Girl and The Femme Fatale: Claire McCardell & Valentina
Yeholee Teng: In Conversation with Susan Sidlauskas
Click here for ticket prices and more info. FYI Students can attend for free.
