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If you are a fashion lover and you happen to visit New York in the following months, you are in luck. It's not only because The Big Apple is one of the hot spots of the fashion industry but also because The Museum at FIT, one of the most innovative and famous fashion museums in the world, has opened this week The Great Designers exhibition, part one of two consecutive exhibitions featuring masterpieces from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories.
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'The Great Designers' Exhibition Opens In New York
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| Orange silk gown by Christian Lacroix |
The exhibition is on view until May 8, 2012 and features, in alphabetical order, approximately 50 iconic pieces from an array of renowned designers of the 20th and 21st centuries - from Alaïa, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior and Givenchy, to Thierry Mugler, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Yeohlee and Zoran.
The Great Designers: Part One exhibition includes some historically and artistically significant objects that are seldom on view and a number of new acquisitions that will be exhibited for the very first time, including an elaborately embroidered black silk coatdress by Alexander McQueen, and an elegant red evening gown by Valentino, featured in his last-ever couture collection in 2008.
Another 50 fashion masterpieces will be shown in The Great Designers, Part Two, which will be on display at The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology from May 23 through November 10, 2012.
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| Gareth Pugh (2007), Oscar de la Renta (1978), Boudicca (2006) |
To accompany the exhibition, the Museum’s forthcoming Taschen book, The Great Designers: Fashion’s Hall of Fame from A to Z, will be published early in 2012. It will feature approximately 500 masterpieces of fashion by 100 of the most important modern era fashion designers with short biographies and an extensive essay on the history of fashion museums and exhibitions.
The Museum at FIT covers 250 years of fashion history in three galleries. The lower level gallery is devoted to special exhibitions, such as the amazing Daphne Guinness exhibition currently on display. The Fashion and Textile History Gallery, where The Great Designers exhibition is on display, presents a selection of historically and artistically significant objects from the Museum’s permanent collection that changes every six months or so. The third one, Gallery FIT, also located on the main floor, is dedicated to student and faculty exhibitions.
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