Love and War: The Weaponized Woman
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Issey Miyake, molded plastic bustier, 1983. Photo by Irving Solero, MFIT. www.fitnyc.edu/museum
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology unveils a daring exhibition this weekend. Exploring the discourse between hard and soft, silk and steel, lingerie and armor, Love and War: The Weaponized Woman will present modern and historical fashion objects from designers like Thierry Mugler, Narciso Rodriguez, Junya Watanabe and Jean Paul Gaultier. The exhibition runs from September 9 - December 16, 2006.
FIT will also offer a special symposium this Saturday, September 9. Speakers such as Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby from Boudicca, Dr. Valerie Steele and Jean Yu will discuss fashion's most powerful and influential dichotomy.
Saturday, September 9
9AM-5PM
Katie Murphy Amphitheatre
$30, Free to all students, and FIT Faculty and staff
Please visit www.fitnyc.edu/museum for detailed speaker, schedule, and registration information or call 212-217-7715.
Sarah Scaturro
Fashion Projects #5 is devoted to fashion curation, examining the meteoritic rise in relevance of fashion exhibitions.
It features interviews with an eclectic assortment of leading practitioners from different corners of the world. The issue includes long Q&As with Harold Koda, the longtime, recently retired curator of the Met’s Costume Institute, as well as the Museum at FIT’s veteran leader Valerie Steele. It also features interviews with curators in Antwerp (the ModeMuseum’s Kaat Debo), Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum’s Alexandra Palmer) and Venice (Maria Luisa Frisa); academics studying the field (Hazel Clark, Annamari Vänskä, and Alistair O’Neill); and, giving an on-the-ground perspective, the Met’s head conservator, Sarah Scaturro. The issue’s cover stars Greer Lankton’s sculptural representation of legendary Vogue editor and Costume Institute doyenne Diana Vreeland, who continues to loom over the field years after her death.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Showmanship and History: An Interview with Harold Koda by Francesca Granata
Woman of Steele: An Interview with Valerie Steele by Lisa Santandrea
Exploring Fashion’s Openness: An Interview with Kaat Debo by Alex Esculapio
London, After a Fashion Curator: An Interview with Alistair O’Neill by Alexis Romano
Curation and Conservation: An Interview with Sarah Scaturro by Mae Colburn
Reflections on Fashion Curating
An Interview with Hazel Clark and Annamari Vänskä
Fashion in the Vast Museum: An Interview with Alexandra Palmer by Ingrid Mida
Restless Curating: An Interview with Maria Luisa Frisa by Marco Pecorari