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New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of “Art X Fashion” with Elizabeth Way
February 20 | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join ArtTable at The Museum at FIT for a curator-led tour of Art X Fashion.
“This exhibition will garner strong opinions and spark lively dialogue, but whether you decide that fashion is art or not, fashion’s strong and mutual relationship with fine art is undeniable.” – Elizabeth Way, MFIT Curator of Costume and Accessories
The exhibition highlights how fashion is utilized as an expressive tool for artists, such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Sonia Delaunay, alongside designers like Scott Barrie and Hussein Chalayan who root their concepts deeply in their art education, while Fabrice Simon and Ralph Rucci are both painters as well as designers. Contemporary figures such as Cat Chow, Mary Ping, and Tavares Strachan exemplify the fluid, modern boundary that exemplifies how these worlds can merge.
Art X Fashion equally surveys the ways in which fashion has been inspired by fine art. Through examples from designers such as Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino, the exhibition spotlights ways that fashion has used odes to Pop Art classics as a means of commenting on consumer and celebrity culture. These replications of famous artworks on garments and accessories democratized these priceless masterpieces for a mass audience, lending value, recognition, and even humor to fashion pieces, but also adding cultural capital to the artworks. In some cases, such as with Grace Wales Bonner, the application of fine art to fashion extends the message of the original artist.
Elizabeth Way is curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at FIT, where her recent exhibitions include Black Fashion Designers (2016), Fabric In Fashion (2018), Head to Toe (2021), Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style (2023), Food & Fashion (2023), and Africa’s Fashion Diaspora (2024). She guest-curated Ann Lowe: American Couturier at Winterthur Museum Garden & Library (2023) and edited the books Black Designers in American Fashion (2021) and Ann Lowe: American Couturier (2023). Way holds an M.A. in costume studies from New York University and a doctorate in fashion curation from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
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