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manhattanfashionblog · 1 year

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The Connection between the Creator and Their Interiors

February 4, 2023

An innovative exhibit of more than 70 garments from female fashion designers including Jeanne Paquin, Robe à la Française, and Madame Hardy, showcasing how and why the aesthetics of interior decoration influenced their brands.

In the late 19th century when interior decoration became a possible profession, female designers constantly used French interiors to influence their own styles and designs to enrich their brand leading to an influx number of women starting haute couture houses in the fashion capitals of the world. Ultimately, these fashion creators devoted themselves to their luxe or modest interiors at home as they also carefully crafted their couture salons with their garments serving as testaments for the art of decoration.

The Museum at FIT showcases this connection, between the female creator and their interiors, as it dives into the different eras in fashion and how specific trends in interior entered into design. In the 1890s during the Belle Époque, luxurious silks dominated inside the home which translated to garments where a dramatic and overly feminine design was then produced and vice versa. Jeanne Paquin, who opened her couture house in 1891, rose to fame during the luxurious Belle Époque where she created innovative designs that epitomized the era by using silk taffeta and silk chiffon. Her success led her to become a powerful figure in fashion as the location of her couture house, on rue de Paix, reflected the exclusivity of her brand which later took abroad in London. Her couture shop in Paris was decorated in a modern and elegant way with a rococo revival style as she loved interiors and modern furnishings and was influenced by them like many female designers in her time and there on after.

During the 1890s to 1970s, many female designers felt that "the interior of a home is a natural project of the soul," as Coco Chanel herself stated.

DESIGNING WOMEN: FASHION CREATORS AND THEIR INTERIORS is on free display on W 27th Street, at FIT, until February 08, 2023.

Zuleica Prado

#FITMuseum #Designing Women #Blog Post #Fashion #Creative Fashion Presentations

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astridland · 1 year

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My first Supima Design Competition and my denim Goddess gown made it on the front & back cover. WWD called it “minimal yet bold”-the catch phrase then became my brand tagline. No credit was given but I am still very proud of my design and happy that the FIT Museum has it in their collection! #wwd #tbt #designcompetition #astridlandnyc #fitmuseum #covermodel #nycdesigner https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJY-87AkfV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wwd #tbt #designcompetition #astridlandnyc #fitmuseum #covermodel #nycdesigner

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vivianfashionreview · 1 year

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FIT MUSEUM- Designing Womens: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors

The FIT Museum had an exhibit called "Designing Womens: Fashion Creators and Their Interiors" and it showcased 70 garments from different influential female designers. The exhibit was featured in a long showroom with the front mannequins displayed pieces from the 1890s and as you walked further in, the time period reached to 1970s.

Many of the garments from the earlier period (around 1890s) had aspects that enhanced the appearance of the bust like a straight seam underneath the bust or a downward "v" shaped seam. Then midway into the exhibit, there can be seen a turning point in style where dresses were more drop waisted. Seams were starting to be made towards the hip line and emphasizes were added like a ribbon or lace. Finally, when you get to the back of the exhibit and approaching the 1970s, there starts to be garments with looser fits. There is also a change in color and patterns in a more colorful, vibrant, and funky pattern approach.

I can see current day garments that were influenced by fashion in the past and reminiscence of later periods like the 1970s that still holds a huge impact over many people today. This exhibit highlighted how fashion trends change over time between 1890s and 1970s, similar to how the trend cycle today is rapidly moving. While trends come and go, this exhibit reminded me of how fashion truly is timeless.

#fashion #fit #fitmuseum #fitnyc #fashionhistory

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bricehammack · 2 years

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#VictimBlame #ReinventionAndRestlessness #FashionInTheNineties @museumatFIT #FITMuseum #MichaelHoban #EightBallJacket #BriceDailyPhoto https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca-3yi8FuAf/?utm_medium=tumblr

#victimblame #reinventionandrestlessness #fashioninthenineties #fitmuseum #michaelhoban #eightballjacket #bricedailyphoto

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haarstickjewelry · 5 years

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Beautiful dresses at the FIT Museum’s “Paris: Capital of Fashion” exhibit. #fit #fitmuseum #nyc (at Fashion Institute of Technology) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4n5gfbA24a/?igshid=1tifgkeveuqof

#fit #fitmuseum #nyc

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nataliexmarie · 5 years

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even though we lost our first ever escape room, we still had a good time #nyc #siblingadventures #fitmuseum #dylanscandybar #danasbakery (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br4QUfehsqmrCHWdsdxV0JHy6p3pnloPhHHUs40/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18wf2qvnfhfmr

#nyc #siblingadventures #fitmuseum #dylanscandybar #danasbakery

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marieannesqn · 5 years

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Pink, the history of a punk, pretty, powerful color #blogger #fashion #fashionblogger #exhibition #museum #art #pink #pinkthehistory #pinkthehistoryofapunkcolor #fit #chanel #christiandior #dior #ysl #yvessaintlaurent #maisonsaintlaurent #newyork #fitmuseum #commedesgarcons #gucci #lacroix #barbie https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSSzCWgp57/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jt10shjiwav2

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christophermasonnewyork · 6 years

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Toreador cape by @justoalgaba lent by @hamishbowles at last night’s launch 🚀 of PINK: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color, #exhibition at @museumatfit #fitmuseum #fashion #pink almost #orange #yellow #bizarreobsessionwithorange🍊 #christophermasonphotography📷 (at Fashion Institute of Technology) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnbRtTqDk_7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bum7l626nu2s

#exhibition #fitmuseum #fashion #pink #orange #yellow #bizarreobsessionwithorange🍊#christophermasonphotography📷

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michelangeloalasa · 6 years

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Norell@FIT. #fitmuseum #norell #fashion #beautiful (at Museum at FIT)

#fashion #fitmuseum #norell #beautiful

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thesinembargo · 6 years

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Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme #fashionblog #fashiondiary #fashionjournal #fashionhistory #fashionexhibition #fitmuseum #amenfashion #fashionordie #thesinembargo #expeditionstyle (at Museum at FIT)

#fashionjournal #thesinembargo #fashionblog #amenfashion #fashionordie #fashionhistory #fashionexhibition #fitmuseum #fashiondiary #expeditionstyle

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of-otherthings-blog · 7 years

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FIT Museum

**Surprise** Kent State was not the start of my fashion career!! I consider FIT as the start for me. When I was 13 I participated in a pre-college program for fashion forecasting and photography, which was monumental in me realizing that fashion was not only a real career but one that I could actually pursue. It was the first time I was in NYC by myself, AND my first time taking classes I was interested in. Going back to the museum was a nostalgic experience, to say the least. Not to mention, the exhibit was wonderfully put together. I enjoyed the downstairs portion better, which took inspiration travel and climate, called Expedition: Fashion From the Extreme. And a pleasant surprise, they had a Yves Saint Laurent safari jacket on display, originally worn by Veruschka in 1963, which I have been fawning over ever since I saw a photo of it.

Original pic of Veruschka looking awesome

More from Downstairs-

Upstairs, At the Fashion Inspired by Animals Portion

#me doing things #medoingthings #fit #fitmuseum #nyc

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missfitculture · 7 years

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Antonios at FIT 😜 #fitny #themuseumatfit #fitmuseum #fitmuseumnyc #antoniosatfitny #antoniosinfitnyc #antoniofashion #antoniofashionfit

#fitny #antoniosatfitny #antoniosinfitnyc #fitmuseumnyc #fitmuseum #themuseumatfit #antoniofashion #antoniofashionfit

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yanandpepper · 7 years

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Force of Nature 🐛🦋🐚🦐🍁🍃🌸 #fit #museum #mcqueen #jamescharlies #dress #nature #fashion #butterfly #gown #couture #costumeinstitue #floral #forceofnature #fitmuseum #inspire #dress #textile #costume #victorian #embroidery #fashionista #fashionshow #fashiondesigner #instagood (at Museum at FIT)

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fashionavenuenews · 7 years

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Gilbert Adrian (1903-1959) built his career as a costume designer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he worked on more than 250 films, including The Wizard of Oz. His creations for glamorous actresses such as Joan Crawford and Katharine Hepburn inspired women of all ages. Macy’s and other retailers recognized this as a marketing opportunity and opened small boutiques within department stores across the country — “cinema shops,” featuring ensembles based on costumes seen in Hollywood films. To promote them, MGM released a short film in 1940 entitled “Hollywood: Style Center of the World.” Encouraged by the success of the cinema shops, Adrian opened a fashion house in 1942 and began to create looks that appealed to his new leading lady: the American woman.

This exhibition, Adrian: Hollywood and Beyond, highlights both Adrian’s ready-to-wear and his costumes, while focusing on his innovative use of textiles. Beginning during his Hollywood days, fabric was central to Adrian’s aesthetic. He employed an arsenal of techniques — such as appliqué, piecing, mitering, pleating, and draping — to build dynamic garments in which the materials are as celebrated as they are integral to the design. Adrian worked with and endorsed different textile manufacturers throughout his career. Indeed, his final collection in 1952 was dedicated to the “beauty” and “integrity of fabric.”

Long evening dress in ivory rayon crinkle crepe printed with surrealist design of gray shattered monument stones with black shadows and yellow ancient inscriptions of keys, insects, eyes, timepieces, words, arrows, birds; deep-V suplice bodice with cap sleeves, asymmetrical black draped capelet, flared train

Adrian, evening dress, 1947, USA, textile by Salvador Dalí/Wesley Simpson, Gift of Lola Walker, P90.69.1 Adrian, two-piece evening ensemble, circa 1944, USA, Gift of Lola Walker, 70.40.2

Wesley Simpson, a New York textile converter who transformed the illustrations of artists such as Marcel Vertes and Ludwig Bemelmans into pattern repeats, provided Adrian with exciting rayons to animate his designs. Also during Adrian’s career, the textile industry embraced growing public interest in the fine arts — a connection that becomes clear when considering his rayon evening gown made from a Wesley Simpson print, based on an illustration by Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (himself a frequent contributor to the fashion and textile worlds). Adrian recognized the value of this spectacular textile and composed a gown that is a harmonious union of print and fashion design. Using drapery and appliqué, he extended Dalí’s shadowy boulder motif into a dark capelet.

Adrian frequently used organzas, taffetas, and mousselines from Bianchini-Férier, a French silk mill that has produced fabric for couturiers since the nineteenth century. Although Adrian preferred to use rayon crepes to achieve his slim silhouette in the early 1940s, later in his career he turned to the lightness of Bianchini silks to create voluminous eveningwear. Adrian made Bianchini fabrics the focal point of his fall 1949 collection. Inspired by Africa, he chose textiles that ranged from a lamé snakeskin to a warp-printed silk tiger stripe.

Purple and brown horizontal striped wool suit with contrast vertical stripe peaked lapel, midriff panel and skirt; semi-fitted, with shoulder pads, single waistline button, calf-length skirt

Adrian, day dress, 1943, USA, printed rayon, 70.40.8 Adrian suit, 1945, USA, woolen textile by Pola Stout, 66.110.1

Adrian collaborated with woven textile designer Pola Stout throughout the 1940s. She sent striped and checkered wools to Adrian, who sketched garments inspired by her work and then returned the samples to be rewoven to his specifications. In Adrian’s hands, a restrained suiting fabric could become a bold and unique garment, often by means of mitering, the cutting and piecing together of fabric at an angle. Adrian’s collaborations with Stout resulted in some of his most celebrated suits, described by Vogue as “never melodramatic, never dull.” Designers who were trying to meet wartime fabric restrictions adopted the distinctive triangular silhouette — square, padded shoulders narrowing into a slim-hipped skirt — that Adrian had already perfected.

While best remembered for his tailored daytime looks, Adrian was also a skillful and inventive draper. He used this technique in both his film and fashion work to create glamorous evening gowns. In a stunning example from his last film, Lovely to Look At, Adrian draped a continuous length of fabric from the waist to a billowing sleeve, encircling the wearer to create a dramatic hood. In the exhibition, the costume is paired alongside a deceptively simple black dress from one of his earliest ready-to-wear collections. In both, Adrian’s unconventional and refined use of silk jersey is a highlight.

Adrian, costume, 1952, USA, from the film Lovely to Look At, 70.8.18 Adrian, suit jacket, circa 1950, USA, 73.66.1

From an examination of Adrian’s construction techniques and applications of textiles, a clear picture of the designer emerges — as both artist and engineer. As Eleanor Lambert, fashion publicist and founder of New York Fashion Week, wrote in a review of Adrian’s spring 1952 collection, “The fabric is the first signal that the costume is an Adrian.” His appreciation of textiles and their design potential set Adrian apart in Hollywood and beyond.

Adrian: Hollywood and Beyond has been organized by the graduate students in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s MA program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice, with the support of Sarah Byrd, Ariele Elia, and Emma McClendon.

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FIT MUSEUM – Adrian: Hollywood and Beyond Gilbert Adrian (1903-1959) built his career as a costume designer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he worked on more than 250 films, including

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museumatfit · 5 years

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#MyMFIT / Lauren Bacall: The Look (2015)

Flashback to exploring Lauren Bacall’s wardrobe at @museumatfit - fun facts: I once interviewed her son who told me wonderful stories about life with his mom and dad Humphrey Bogart. I also own a signed photo by her when she was doing a Broadway show. Several years before she passed I tried to get an interview with her but she shunned me away completely. I had no idea that by then she rarely, if ever, gave interviews. She deserved it after decades of tirelessly working. #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc#manhattan #throwback #flashback #vintage #oldhollywood #ajournalistslife #laurenbacall #nycgirl #museumatfit #fitmuseum #fit

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#MyMFIT #MuseumatFIT #MFITat50 #BacallTheLook #fashionexhibition

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joseluisetre1216 · 4 years

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Tanya Melendez wearing the gray bandana print Soid Studios facemask. Thank you for your support Tanya . . . . . . . . . #soidstudios #soidstudiosny #wearing #handmade #facemask #gray #color #bandana #print #fall #winter #collection #person #personoftheday #respect #wear #wiw #wiwt #post #photo #photooftheday #follow #fit #fitmuseum #coordination #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocalbusiness #pandemia #pandemic (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqLb9wj_Uf/?igshid=h0g5bg4c1byf

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