Episodes
![Mexican Rose | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/mexican-rose_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Mexican Rose | Fashion Culture
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
For The Museum at FIT's Pink Symposium, Tanya Melendez-Escalante, MFIT senior curator of education and public program, explored the history of the color “Mexican pink” and how it has been used by fashion designers and architects from Mexico.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Person Place Thing | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/ppp-2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Person Place Thing | Fashion Culture
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Randy Cohen, creator of the public radio program Person Place Thing, says his guests are at their most engaging when they talk about whatever they find most meaningful. In an interview recorded for broadcast, Cohen asks MFIT Director Valerie Steele about her own most memorable person, place, and thing.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Stephen Jones in conversation with Colleen Hill | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/stephen-jones_300x300.jpg)
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Stephen Jones in conversation with Colleen Hill | Fashion Culture
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Stephen Jones is a milliner whose exquisitely crafted, quixotic hats attract a celebrity clientele that includes Rihanna, Mick Jagger, and Dita Von Teese. In this conversation with MFIT curator, Colleen Hill, Jones shares stories on how he came into millinery and why people wear hats.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco Q&A | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/antonio-lopez_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco Q&A | Fashion Culture
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is an electrifying documentary that follows fashion illustrator (and FIT alumnus) Antonio Lopez from New York to Paris between 1969 and 1973. Alexander Joseph, Hue Magazine managing editor, leads a Q&A with the film's director Paul Caranicas and models Pat Cleveland and Corey Tippen.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Straight/Curve Film Discussion | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/straight-curve_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 31, 2020
Straight/Curve Film Discussion | Fashion Culture
Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
The documentary Straight/Curve offers an unflinching look into the body image crisis in the world of modeling. Listen as director Jenny McQuaile and Meredith Rollins, editor in chief of Redbook magazine, discuss topics addressed in the film.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/frida-kahlo-v5_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being | Fashion Culture
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Susana Martinez Vidal, author of Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being, presents the 20 fashion lessons she learned from Frida Kahlo.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![From Sylph to Swan: The Tutu and Fashion | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/tutu-and-fashion_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
From Sylph to Swan: The Tutu and Fashion | Fashion Culture
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Patricia Mears, deputy director of The Museum at FIT, explores the history of the tutu in ballet and fashion at The Museum at FIT's 14th annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, held on October 23 & 24, 2014. This symposium explored how dance costume has inspired fashion, and how fashion designers have increasingly been creating dance costumes.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Ballet Shoes: Function, Fashion, and Fetish | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/ballet-shoes_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Ballet Shoes: Function, Fashion, and Fetish | Fashion Culture
Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at FIT, discusses the romance and femininity but also discipline and pain of ballet shoes.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![A Conversation with Liya Kebede | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/liya-kebede_300x300.jpg)
Friday Feb 14, 2020
A Conversation with Liya Kebede | Fashion Culture
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Accomplished supermodel and designer Liya Kebede joins MFIT Assistant Curator of Costume Elizabeth Way to talk about lemlem, Kebede’s collection of women’s, men’s, children’s clothing, and home goods made entirely in Africa. The core collection is handwoven from natural cotton sourced in Kebede’s native Ethiopia. Women artisans are at the heart of lemlem, and the brand is committed to helping them find health care, education, and jobs through the lemlem Foundation.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum
![Careers in Fashion Media | Fashion Culture](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3051202/feb-2020-updated_300x300.jpg)
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Careers in Fashion Media | Fashion Culture
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Elizabeth Way, in conversation with Teri Agins, Dario Calmese, and Constance White discusses the evolving field of fashion journalism at The Museum at FIT's Black Fashion Designers symposium held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.
Watch the full video with captions on YouTube.
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City. https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum