Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"
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- Title
- Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"
- Contributor Names
- Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum
- Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion)
- Bivins, Joy L., 1976-
- Date
- 2019-03-08
- Description
- The Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.
- Elizabeth Way is an assistant curator of costume at MFIT. She co-curated the exhibitions Global Fashion Capitals and Black Fashion Designers and curated the current exhibition Fabric In Fashion.
- Joy L. Bivins is the chief curator of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. As director of curatorial affairs at the Chicago History Museum, she collaborated on projects such as Teen Chicago and Inspiring Beauty: Fifty Years of Ebony Fashion Fair.
- Subject
- Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum
- Costume museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museums
- Curatorship
- African Americans
- Clothing
- Rights
- In Copyright
- This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: aod_000227
Citation
Fashion Institute of Technology. (2019, March 8). Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions" [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"." Archive on Demand, 8 Mar. 2019, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Elizabeth Way and Joy L. Bivins "The African Diaspora in Fashion Exhibitions"," Archive on Demand, March 8, 2019, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/23193