Every spring, FIT’s campus fills up with displays of our students’ best work. But the event we are best known for is our fashion show. It’s no longer so easy to get tickets, but technology has made it easier to share it with the world remotely. You can look at this years’ show (and past years’) here:
FIT’s Future of Fashion shows link
Last week much of the fashion design departments’ student work was briefly on display in our Reeves Great Hall. The library wishes to honor the students’ years of hard work with these images. We hope you have a great time while you were at FIT. We can see you worked hard. We hope that our library materials and people helped you do better work. We congratulate you on this milestone and wish you every success out in the world at large.
The theme this year was “Cabinet of Curiosities”. Intellectual men and women of the Renaissance and Baroque periods collected pieces of natural phenomena such as coral, rock crystal, insects and unusual eggs, and fossils into elegant boxes. These historic cabinets and treasure boxes were the origin of the western science and natural history studies. To help the students research this theme, one of our librarians made this great research guide:
Research guide to Cabinets of Curiosities
The students took this theme many different directions, as you can see here. Their creativity is the best thing about FIT.
These three garments seem inspired by cocoons and leaves.
Some students picked up on particular animals, others abstracted the idea of the earthy growing contents and still others mimicked the cabinets themselves.
The breadth of materials chosen by the students to express these ideas is inspiring.
Many of the garments also played on the idea of exoskeletons and frameworks that reflect the collections of bones and insects in many cabinets of curiosities.
The show also featured student portfolios, along with their business cards and profiles in order to help them launch themselves into the fashion business.
Congratulations to the graduating Fashion Design class of 2018! Well done!
