{"id":1092,"date":"2019-02-27T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:42:28","slug":"the-museum-at-fit-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/2019\/02\/27\/the-museum-at-fit-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum at FIT 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 50th anniversary party for the Museum at FIT offered a welcome opportunity, in the middle of a dreary February, for celebration. To acknowledge this milestone moment in the museum\u2019s history, its director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, and curator of costume and accessories, Colleen Hill, selected from 33 of the museum\u2019s most influential\u2014and often groundbreaking\u2014exhibits to create yet another sensational show: \u201cExhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT.\u201d This could not have been easy since there were over 200 from which to choose. Just before the doors to the party opened, Valerie\u2014chic as always in black\u2014conducted a private tour of the show for members of our Couture Council.<\/p>\n

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Museum guests tour the exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our own Michael Kors calls the museum \u201cthe fashion insiders\u2019 fashion museum\u201d\u2014an apt observation! Indeed, the museum lobby was filled to capacity with festive fashion insiders, many of whom happily walked the red carpet on arrival. The mood was celebratory; the crowd was lively, there was a buzz and a real sense of excitement. Valerie and I both offered champagne toasts as did our guest of honor, Tim Gunn, who acknowledged the museum on behalf of the fashion community. Calling the exhibit a \u201chuge wow moment,\u201d he saluted the museum\u2019s relevance and innovative spirit.<\/p>\n

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Tim Gunn with Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Dr. Valerie Steele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show is so alluring that in the midst of all the merrymaking, many guests who wandered down to see it became fully absorbed, and spent much of the rest of the evening there. I think they all would agree with the Wall Street Journal, whose reviewer wrote, \u201cThank heaven for FIT\u201d for creating the Museum at FIT which has played a \u201cseminal role in framing fashion as art and the fashion exhibition as a display of ideas as well as clothes.\u201d Amen to that!<\/p>\n

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John Bartlett, Menswear Design and Marketing ’88 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Fern Mallis <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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John Lyle, Marisol Deluna, Rob Keenan <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Lucia Hwong Gordon <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ava Safir, Anna Kennedy <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Cassidy Hopper, Va Va Voom, Gretchen Fenston <\/div> <\/div>
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Dr. Joyce F. Brown offers a toast to guests at the opening reception of Exhibitionism: 50 Years Of The Museum At FIT <\/div> <\/div>
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Guests tour Exhibitionism: 50 Years Of The Museum At FIT <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Guests tour Exhibitionism: 50 Years Of The Museum At FIT <\/div> <\/div>
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Opening Reception For Exhibitionism: 50 Years Of The Museum At FIT <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Eleanora Kennedy, Yaz Hernandez <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 50th anniversary party for the Museum at FIT offered a welcome opportunity, in the middle of a dreary February, for celebration. To acknowledge this milestone moment in the museum\u2019s history, its director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, and curator of costume and accessories, Colleen Hill, selected from 33 of the museum\u2019s most influential\u2014and often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"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":[35538,32384],"tags":[35543,12779,147,9887,35531,23746],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-2","category-industry-2","tag-arts","tag-exhibition","tag-fashion","tag-history","tag-legacy","tag-the-museum-at-fit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ycDS-hC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}