Title

Pink Symposium: Dr. Valerie Steele "Pink: The History of a Color"

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Steele, Valerie

Date

2018-10-19

Description

The Museum at FIT presented Pink, its twentieth academic symposium. This symposium explored the significance of the color pink in fashion, art, and culture. Pink provokes exceptionally strong feelings of both attraction and repulsion, yet it is increasingly being regarded as cool and androgynous, powerful and political. Topics included the significance of pink clothing in western and non-western cultures (including India, Africa, Mexico, and Japan), the role of pink in eighteenth-century portraiture, associations of pink with politics, gender, and sexuality, and the use of pink in cinema.

Dr. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of MFIT. Her current exhibition is Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Pink and Paris Fashion: A Cultural History.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

Color

Psychology

Color in clothing

Pink

Pink in art

Fashion

History

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Exhibitions

Fashion design

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000815