{"id":4824,"date":"2017-06-30T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:00:57","slug":"the-museum-at-fit-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/06\/30\/the-museum-at-fit-force-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum at FIT: Force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/museum\/images\/forceofnature-2016.15.1.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander McQueen, Irere collection, Spring 2003, England, Museum Purchase. 2016.15.1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Force of Nature<\/em>, a new\u00a0exhibit\u00a0part of the\u00a0Museum\u00a0at FIT,\u00a0examines the complex relationship between fashion and the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition reveals how nature has historically influenced fashion, and how fashion can serve as an indicator of society\u2019s relationship with the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>In eighteenth century Europe, for example, nature became an object of renewed fascination as a result of overseas exploration. This fascination found expression in garments that featured depictions of exotic plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is\u00a0open now until November 18th, 2017.\u00a0Explore the\u00a0<em>Force of Nature<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fon-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0online resource<\/a>. It offers additional information about science topics covered throughout the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Force of Nature, a new\u00a0exhibit\u00a0part of the\u00a0Museum\u00a0at FIT,\u00a0examines the complex relationship between fashion and the natural world. The exhibition reveals how nature has historically influenced fashion, and how fashion can serve as an indicator of society\u2019s relationship with the natural world. In eighteenth century Europe, for example, nature became an object of renewed fascination &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/06\/30\/the-museum-at-fit-force-of-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Museum at FIT: Force of Nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133,31471,31451,41182],"tags":[35261,42,48522,9010,145],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-creating","category-on-campus-fun","category-fyi","tag-blogger","tag-fit","tag-melinda","tag-museum-at-fit","tag-nyc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-1fO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}