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Fashion Projects
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Avant-garde Fashion, Art, Visual Culture, Fashion Theory, Fashion Exhibitions, Fashion Museums, Fashion Exhibition, Fashion Museum
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Interview with Timo Rissanen: Towards A More Sustainable Fashion Series

by Mae Colburn MLS Pyjamas, 2011 When I met Timo Rissanen, he was fielding a flurry of emails and phone calls. His office was crowded with books. Sample garments were piled next to the door. The arra...

5 days ago

Towards a more Sustainable Fashion: A New Fashion Projects Series

by Francesca Granata Just in time for the summer weather, we are starting a new series on the many ways in which a number of people here in New York are working towards a more sustainable fashion ...

5 days ago

Prada and Schiaparelli: Impossible Conversations

by Ingrid Mida It seemed like it would be an impossible task to match the Costume Institute’s McQueen blockbuster of last summer with an equaling compelling and aesthetically engaging display. Noneth...

15 may 12

Panel: Defining Chic: Then and Now

by Francesca Granata Next Tuesday May 15 I will participate in a panel in conjunction with the exhibition “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume...

10 may 12

Hacked Design at laRinascente, Milan

By Simona Segre Reinach During the Salone del Mobile 2012 (Milan Design Week 16-22 April) la Rinascente, Milan’s most fashionable department store, is hosting ‘Hacked – Rebellious Imagination’(...

27 apr 12

Interview with curator Beatrice Gailee

by Simona Segre Reinach SSR In which ways did Milan Design Week and la Rinascente inspire your project Hacked? BG This is my first time working in a shopping mall, and I found a lot of enthusiasm fro...

27 apr 12

Interview with Tiziana Cardini-LaRinasce nte Fashion Director

by Simona Segre Reinach SSR La Rinascente has often hosted events during the Salone del Mobile of Milan. This year it looks as if you want to be more involved in the actual co-production of an event....

27 apr 12

Fashion Photography on View

By Laura McLaws Helms Brian Duffy’s “Aladdin Sane,” 1973 Exhibiting fashion photographs in museum and gallery settings has become increasingly common in recent years. Combining two ...

26 apr 12

Indisciplined Curation-Recordin g

by Francesca Granata For those who missed the panel, you can view a recording of it here or below:

23 apr 12

Indisciplined Curation

by Francesca Granata Sabrina Gschwandtner, Knitknit Covers Tuesday April 17th, I am chairing a panel on curation at Parsons the New School for Design. I hope you will be able to attend! Focusing on c...

15 apr 12

Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland: The Discipline of Fashion Between Museum and Curating

by Francesca Granata Figure 1 An incredibly exciting day of talks characterized the Italian symposium “Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland: The Discipline of Fashion Between Museum and Curating,” whi...

30 mar 12

The Discipline of Fashion between the Museum and Curating

by Francesca Granata I am incredibly excited to having been invited to participate to the symposium “The Discipline of Fashion between the Museum and Curating,” which will take in place i...

05 mar 12

Titania Inglis: Fade From Green

By Sarah Scaturro A favorite look from Titania Inglis’ F/W 2012 collection. Photographer: Dan Lecca Fashion Projects has been a fan of Titania Inglis ever since she launched her eponymous labe...

26 feb 12

Protesting in the Right Clothes

The second issue of Fashion Projects, which focused on collaborations and collective, was partially dedicated to the topic of clothing and protest—a topic that has currently come to the forefront in ...

20 nov 11

Interview with Rebecca Burgess about her Vision for a Thriving Local Textile Economy

By Mae Colburn Rebecca Burgess in the indigo field she planted this year with support of Monica Paz Soldan and her son Jaemus, Rick Raddue, Michael Keefe, and a host of lovely volunteers here and the...

20 nov 11

Call for Papers: Fashion Tales

Photo Courtesy of Modacult An exciting conference in the field of Fashion Studies is taking place in Milan from June 7 to 9 at the Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, The conference is organized b...

17 nov 11

We stop our regular programming in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

15 nov 11

A Conversation with Harold Koda about Fashion and Art

by Ingrid Mida Harold Koda by Karin Willis (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Harold Koda has served as the Curator-in-Charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N...

07 nov 11

A Conversation with Valerie Steele about Fashion and Art

by Ingrid Mida Valerie Steele by Aaron Cobbett Dr. Valerie Steele is the Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Fashion Theory. Sh...

31 oct 11

Conferences in New York

Cover of Not A Toy published by Pictoplasma Coming up are two conferences of interest. At the Museum at FIT, “Fashion Icons and Insiders” is taking place on November 3rd and 4th, featuring speakers i...

30 oct 11

When Does Fashion Become Art?

by Ingrid Mida This is the abstract of my keynote address “When Does Fashion Become Art?” to the Costume Society of America mid-west conference which took place at the University of North...

23 oct 11

Daphne Guinness Exhibition at The Museum at FIT

by E.P.Cutler “Daphne Guinness in Water” Los Angeles, CA 2008. Photograph by David LaChapelle. It is rumored that Bernard-Henri Lévy originally wooed Daphne Guinness with the line, “You a...

07 oct 11

Estethica at London Fashion Week

by Rio Ali It’s easy to get caught up in the glitz and glamour of Fashion Week when there is so much excitement about emerging young London designers. It was only a few years ago that the likes of Ch...

27 sep 11

Nick Cave: Double Exhibition

Nick Cave, “Speak Louder,” 2011 buttons, wire, bugle beads, upholstery, and mannequin Installed: (93 1/2 X 199 X 123 inches), currently at Jack Shainman Gallery. As fashion week has come ...

12 sep 11

Hussein Chalayan: Fashion Narratives

By Rio Jade Ali “Before Minus Now,” Spring/Summer 2000 Anyone lucky enough to have caught Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year will tell you that fashion exhibitions ...

06 sep 11

YIELD: Making Fashion Without Making Waste

Quick Update: The dress in the poster is by the incredibly talented designer Caroline Priebe of Uluru Here at Fashion Projects, we had been waiting for this exhibition for quite some time, or precise...

30 aug 11

Mediating Modesty: A symposium at the London College of Fashion

by Ana Carolina Minozzo. Satin Wrap Band Snood by Maysaa Earlier this summer, a crucial step in the innovative research in the field of fashion studies took place in London. A one day symposium ‘Medi...

15 aug 11

Fashion Projects and Other News

by Francesca Granata This upcoming fall, I will be starting a new post at Parsons the New School for Design as Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory. If anyone is int...

01 aug 11

A Conversation with Matthew Teitelbaum of the AGO about Art and Fashion

by Ingrid Mida Matthew Teitelbaum, Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario Matthew Teitelbaum is the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO. Matthew joined t...

24 jul 11

On Kunsthåndverk: An Interview with Franz Schmidt and Charlotte Bik Bandlien

by Mae Colburn Mae Colburn: How would you explain the word kunsthåndverk in English? Franz Schmidt: It’s the Norwegian term for the crafts area. Kunsthåndverk: arts and crafts. ‘Articraft,’ directl...

11 jul 11

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