The Museum at FIT
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street (corner)
Closed Sunday, Monday and legal holidays
otherwise, 10AM-8PM (5PM on Saturday)
This exhibit was absolute MAGIC, assuming you have the time and patience to really think it through. Brilliantly curated by Emma McClendon, this exhibit is about so much more than clothing. My words won't drive the points home nearly as well as a visit to the exhibit will.
If you can get here while the exhibit is still open (which is quite a while), don't miss it. It is free, quiet, near some great fabric and notions shopping, and delicious restaurants. You NEED to see it, but particularly for its academic and social messages and impact, more than it's visual one.
Seriously, can we talk about corsets and 18" waists? This false information has been repeated and repeated... while only simple measurements of old corsets will tell you the truth. why do we subscribe to notions of how we should be shaped, or what we should like, based on what the clothing available to us looks like?
I was really amazed by the custom dress made for the comedienne Leslie Jones. The beauty of it was just breath-taking. Why did it take Christian Siriano to make the "brave" step of offering to make her a gown?
The industry has opened up to a growing cross section of people, and certain designers have embraced a diverse view...
-from the exhibition pamphlet
Just go see it. Feel free to ask questions, to yourself, to each other... but open up, and think about what should be, and what CAN be. Get inspired!
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