The Museum at FIT in July

JULY EVENTS NEWSLETTER  THE LATEST NEWS  PUBLIC PROGRAMSFashion Culture: Special Programs CURRENT EXHIBITIONSporting Life UPCOMING EXHIBITION Daphne Guinness  MUSEUM PUBLICATIONDaphne Guinness MUSEUM INFORMATION

THE LATEST NEWS  **What's Happening?** **A big congratulations goes to co-curators Colleen Hill and Jennifer Farley for winning the Costume Society of America's Richard Martin Exhibition Award forEco Fashion: Going Green!! ** Valerie Steele is speaking on the relationship between art and fashion at thePowerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday, August 3th. ** Mark your calendars** The topic of this year's Fashion Symposium has been announced!! Fashion Icons and Insiders will take place on November 3-4, 2011. You won't want to miss this one, we're lining up some very special speakers that we hope to tell you about soon! ** Honor Valentino** There are still a few tickets available for our Couture Council benefit luncheon on Wednesday, September 7th. Anne H. Bass, Charlotte Moss, Diane von Furstenberg, and The Honorable Daphne Guinness are among the luncheon chairs.

PUBLIC PROGRAMSFashion Culture: Special Programs Fashion Culture programs and events are free unless otherwise indicated, and are organized by The Museum at FIT to provide insightful and intriguing perspectives on the culture of fashion. Reservations are required. Space is limited. To RSVP for a program, Register Online Here Join Jennifer Farley, exhibition co-curator, for a tour of Sporting Life, an exhibition that explores the relationship between active sportswear and fashion over the past 150 years. Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the museum's permanent collection, it highlights changes in silhouette, construction, and technology that have improved active sportswear. Sporting Life  Talk and Tour Wednesday, July 20, 10:30am For Talk and Tour dates in August, visit our website

CURRENT EXHIBITIONSporting Life Left: Stephen Sprouse t-shirt and leggings, 1985, Gift of Stephen Sprouse, Inc. / Right: Raleigh/Giordana Sport man’s bicycling ensemble, 1985, Gift of Raleigh Cycle Co. - Photograph by Eileen Costa ©MFIT. May 25 - November 5, 2011 Sporting Life explores the relationship between active sportswear and fashion from the mid-19th century through the present. Clothing for sporting activities has often influenced fashion—and vice versa. Sportswear manufacturers have been responsible for many innovations in performance apparel, even as they recognize that “fashionability” is an important factor. Indeed, much of today’s active sportswear is just as fashionable as it is functional. Read more here

UPCOMING EXHIBITION Daphne Guinness  Photo © René Hebermacher.  September 16, 2011 - January 7, 2012 Approximately 100 garments and accessories from the personal collection of Daphne Guinness will be featured in this exhibition, along with clothes that she has designed herself, a selection of her vertiginous shoes, and her films, The Phenomenology of the Body and Mnemosyne. The exhibition is co-curated by Daphne Guinness and Valerie Steele. Read the press release. Daphne Guinness has been made possible in part through the generosity of LEVIEV Extraordinary Diamonds. Additional support was provided by MAC Cosmetics, The Couture Council, Barneys New York, Jean Shafiroff, and BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

MUSEUM PUBLICATIONDaphne Guinness Book Cover “She is one of the—if not the—most stylish women living,” says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inch heels, her to-die-for couture collection and amazing diamond jewelry, Daphne Guinness embodies the rarified, personal style of a true fashion icon. A designer, editor, model, muse, and stylist, Ms. Guinness is renowned for the way she uses fashion to transform herself. As her friend, the art historian John Richardson puts it: “She is the object of her own creativity. Her persona is her own masterpiece.” Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, Valentino, Azzedine Alaia, and the late Alexander McQueen are among the many great fashion designers whose spectacular garments form part of Daphne Guinness's personal collection of haute couture. But Ms. Guinness is far more than a great couture client, she is also an inspiration to designers because of her fearless personal style. In an extended interview with the curator and fashion historian Valerie Steele, Daphne Guinness explains the origins and characteristics of her style. She also discusses her friendships and collaborations with other creative fashion personalities from the late Isabella Blow to the photographer Steven Klein and the jeweler Shaun Leane. Sumptuously illustrated with both high-fashion photographs and paparazzi shots, the book is a spectacular showcase for the world of Daphne Guinness.  Available Oct 17, 2011 from Yale University Press Yale University Press

MUSEUM INFORMATION  The Museum at FIT is dedicated to advancing knowledge of fashion through exhibitions, programs and publications. The Museum is open to the public free of charge, Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 8pm, and Saturday 10 am - 5pm. Located on the Southwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 27th Street in New York City, the museum can be reached by subway: 1, C, E, F, M, N, or R, and by bus: M20 and M23. Penn Station is close by at 31st Street for the Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit, and Amtrak. For more information, be sure to visit our website at www.fitnyc.edu/museum or phone our information line at212-217-4558 For Press Information about any of our exhibitions or programs, please call the Office of Communications and External Relations, 212-217-4700

The exhibitions and programs of The Museum at FIT are supported in part by the generosity of the members of the Couture Council

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