A symposium on fashion icons and insiders will take place on November 3-4. It will be a fantastic, real, past, and present from vampire dandies to Marie Antoinette to Daphne Guinness.
It will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Daphne Guinness, on view at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT) through January 7, 2012.
Fashion icons, designers, authors, curators, and scholars will cover such topics as:
- Daphne Guinness, one of today's most original fashion icons, in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, MFIT
- Dr. Caroline Weber, associate professor, French and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, on "Fashion Icons from Marie Antoinette to Daphne Guinness." Dr. Weber is the author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution.
- Dr. Peter McNeil, professor, Design History, University of Technology, Sydney, on "Gay Fashion Icons."
- Thierry-Maxime Loriot, organizing curator, The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, will speak on this exhibition.
- Thelma Golden, director and chief curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, on "Black Fashion Icons"
- Dr. Vicki Karaminas, associate professor, Fashion Studies and associate head, School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney, on "Vampire Dandies: Fashionable Masculine Identities and Style." Dr. Karaminas is co-editor of Fashion and Art.
The Museum at FIT is one of a select group of specialized fashion museums, including the Mus e de la Mode, the Mode Museum, and the Museo de la Moda.
It will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Daphne Guinness, on view at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT) through January 7, 2012.
Fashion icons, designers, authors, curators, and scholars will cover such topics as:
- Daphne Guinness, one of today's most original fashion icons, in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, MFIT
- Dr. Caroline Weber, associate professor, French and Comparative Literature, Barnard College, on "Fashion Icons from Marie Antoinette to Daphne Guinness." Dr. Weber is the author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution.
- Dr. Peter McNeil, professor, Design History, University of Technology, Sydney, on "Gay Fashion Icons."
- Thierry-Maxime Loriot, organizing curator, The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, will speak on this exhibition.
- Thelma Golden, director and chief curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, on "Black Fashion Icons"
- Dr. Vicki Karaminas, associate professor, Fashion Studies and associate head, School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney, on "Vampire Dandies: Fashionable Masculine Identities and Style." Dr. Karaminas is co-editor of Fashion and Art.
The Museum at FIT is one of a select group of specialized fashion museums, including the Mus e de la Mode, the Mode Museum, and the Museo de la Moda.
