NYU Steinhardt Costume Studies

Happy Birthday, Halston! Learn more about the designer from this video on a previous exhibition from The Nassau County Museum of Art youtu.be/hffF9xxJhmA via @YouTube

We are excited to announce the 20th Annual Richard Martin Thesis Symposium which will be taking place on Friday, April 9th, 6-7:30 PM CST! We hope to see you there!

We love seeing what our alumni are up to! Check out Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism which features chapters from our alumni, Eun Jung Kang and Myles Ethan Lascity!

Today we're remembering the work of Elsa Peretti who passed on March 18th. Check out this video on her work from Tiffany and Co to learn more about her life, career and influence!

"Style, after all, plays the role of silent orator in most every form of protest. And as civil-rights advocates fought for their humanity, self-definition was a fundamental goal. Fashion was essential. -- Robin Givhan Martin Luther King, born today in 1929. #OnThisDay #MLKDay2021

Check out The Queen and The Crown: A Virtual Exhibition of Costumes from The Queen’s Gambit and The Crown at Brooklyn Museum website, an interactive experience showcasing costumes from both 1960s and 1980s decades of fashion. #fashionhistory

Today in 1935, Amelia Earhart completed a non-stop flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California. This wool-lined leather flight suit Earhart owned is on view at the National Postal Museum. #ameliaearhart #nationalpostalmuseum Smithsonian

Rudi Gernreich has been credited with creating the first fashion video in 1967. Take a look! Basic Black: William Claxton w/ Peggy Moffitt https://nyti.ms/35mnvMk via @nytvideo

Continuing our focus on Quilts of Gee's Bend on our Instagram page, check out this brief history of the quilters and their town from Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics - Ep. 5, Gee's Bend: The Most Famous Quilts in America

Here's a video about the quilting community in Gee's Bend Alabama. Gee's Bend was a remote Black community known for their quilts dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Check out @nyucostumestudies on Instagram for more info!

Tomorrow at 7pm, the The National Arts Club is hosting "Worn on this Day," a discussion about garments worn for memorable events across the centuries. Join Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell for the FREE webinar that will discuss historical figures from Marie Antoinette to Marilyn Monroe and the garments they wore that made history. #kimberlychrismancampbell

Natives are constantly being overlooked, left and right. A lot of people that I know would like to see more Native representation with models. Read more about Denali White Elk in Vogue Italia, who landed their first job as a model on the cover of the magazine's September issue. #peoplesindigenousday

Attended the thought provoking "Evening Dialogue: Objects & Things" hosted by Chicago Fashion Lyceum at their Fashion at the Periphery conference. The conference continues the rest of the week with free webinars, looking at fashion on the fringe of pop culture.

Check out this slide show of some of Kenzo's great designs throughout the years. Kenzo became the first Japanese designer to be recognized by the French fashion world, setting in motion a new chapter of French fashion. Kenzo Takada died over the weekend at the age of 80.

This video We Will Breathe was created by Marcus Gilmore and Nicholas Payton in response to the aftermath following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. It is a tone poem based on the images of Kwame Brathwaite from the 1966 Black Arts Movement. Brathwaite also documented fashion and is a focus of our Insta page today: https://www.instagram.com/nyucostumestudies/. We Will Breathe - Copyright Paytone Records and Kwame Braithwaite Archives

The New York Adventure Club is hosting a webinar tomorrow 10/1 at 7pm titled 1918 x 2020: Global Fashion in the Age of Pandemics. They will explore global fashion trends during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, other ways fashion has responded to disease, and a look at trends emerging now in response to COVID-19.

Pajamas have taken center stage these days, from the WFH dress code to the 'Red Carpet' celebrity looks at this year's Emmy Awards. The trend for a 'pajama suit' started around 1911, when they were featured in fashion magazine The Queen. Pajamas were at first worn only as indoor dressing but soon became part of beachwear attire, and even worn as evening wear. Hollywood has had many PJ moments over the years, and back in March, British Vogue curated a list of their favorites throughout the years.

Enjoy Syrian American poet rapper Mona Haydar’s first music video, Hijabi. It is featured alongside breathtaking examples of Muslim style in the "Contemporary Muslim Fashions" exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt. The exhibit explores current Muslim dress, its contribution to the ongoing globalization of fashion and culture, and the designers’ ability to achieve style while keeping in mind modest dressing. Also addressed is the lack of attention given to Muslim fashions by the fashion industry, and how modern Muslim women are addressing it head on.

Because the Precollege course Summer Live had to move to an online format, Museum at FIT produced these videos for high school students enrolled in the program. They are now making them open to the public. Thank you for sharing! #silverlinings #fashionhistory #themuseumatfit

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened to the public! If you missed seeing fashion up close and in person "In Pursuit of Fashion, The Sandy Schreier Collection" is showing through September 27th.