The symposium - Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties – explores the decade of fashion that celebrated supermodels, magazines, grunge, provocative clothing, and how globalism and technological advancement shaped the era.

Join the live Q&A during the YouTube Premiere of these prerecorded events.

Schedule for Friday, February 11 11–11:30 am EST Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties Colleen Hill, curator, costume and accessories, MFIT, and curator of the exhibition Reinvention and Restlessness

11:30 am–12 pm EST Spectacle: Fashion on Parade Patricia Mears, deputy director, MFIT

12–12:30 pm EST Martin Margiela/1989–1999 Alexandre Samson, curator of haute couture (from 1947) and contemporary creation, Palais Galliera

12:30–1 pm EST 1990s Fashion Ephemera: Trends, Desire, and Exclusivity Marco Pecorari, program director, MA Fashion Studies at Parsons Paris, and Paul Boudens, graphic designer

1–1:30 pm EST Lamine Badian Kouyaté in Conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele Badian Kouyaté, fashion designer and founder of the label Xuly.Bët, and Dr. Steele, director and chief curator, MFIT

All videos will be available to view on demand after the event on The Museum at FIT’s YouTube channel.


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