Exhibit spotlights 50 years of fab fashion from FIT archives
“Exhibitionism,” a new show that opens Friday, celebrates the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s 50th anniversary.
February 8, 2019
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“Exhibitionism,” a new show that opens Friday, celebrates the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s 50th anniversary.
Mohsen al-Khayami has for years watched sadly as his once lucrative craft business dwindled and fellow artisans deserted the ancient art known as Khayamiya, or tentmaking, for better-paying jobs. The
Inside the machine-crammed Mouhtarides factory near the Greek-Turkish border, Ioanna Pistola deftly spins a silk thread in a loom, ignoring the deafening noise around her. “I’ve been working in this
Escada celebrated its 40th anniversary Sunday by making a New York Fashion Week debut with soft power dressing for the working woman — an upbeat and colorful collection that paid tribute
ROME (AP) — Nigerian women who were trafficked to Italy to work as prostitutes have found work in a handbag and dressmaking shop that recently received some top-notch raw materials:
Cheap, Chinese-made nylon burkas are flooding Afghanistan’s north as consumers turn to affordable, mass-produced fabrics — but in Kabul, a small determined fashion house is fighting to preserve the traditional textiles
One woman is changing the way Saudi Arabians look at history and heritage through the peculiar use of textile.
HONG KONG — He’s probably the most-photographed butcher in Heung Che Street Market in Tsuen Wan although he refuses to show his face in the photos. He also doesn’t take interviews and insists that photographers frame him neck downward. The young man in question is a bit tired of modeling an item of his workaday gear — an apron cut out of “self-cleaning fabric” developed by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparels (HKRITA) — although he had a role in its making.
American researchers have created a low-cost textile made of a plastic base that could cool the body when woven into clothing.
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