Month: March 2013

  • Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT

    The much anticipated publication featuring highlights from The Museum at FIT’s costume collection is finally here!  Published by Taschen, with a forward by Suzy Menkes, and text by The Museum at FIT’s Director Valerie Steele, the initial copies of the title are gorgeous limited-editions housed in lucite display cases.  Six ‘Designer Editions’ are available, featuring…

  • The Extraordinary Life of Gerda Wegener

    The fact that Danish artist Gerda Wegener was one of the few female artists to find commercial success in Paris during the teens and twenties, is perhaps one of the least intriguing aspects of her extraordinary life.  Born in Denmark in 1885, Wegener studied art at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Copenhagen.  In 1912, she…