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China Through the Looking Glass    

 

 
Exploring the ways in which Chinese aesthetics have influenced Western fashion, from the silk trade in the first century to today.

  

Cristobal Balenciaga         

Guo Pei     

Roberto Cavalli

        

John Galliano    

  

House of Dior  

     

Alexander McQueen by Sarah Burton  piece above .

Location: Chinese Galleries (206–218), Egyptian Galleries (132), and the Anna Wintour Costume Center (980–981)

This exhibition explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and the Department of Asian Art, high fashion is juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, including films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery.
From the earliest period of European contact with China in the sixteenth century, the West has been enchanted with enigmatic objects and imagery from the East, providing inspiration for fashion designers from Paul Poiret to Yves Saint Laurent, whose fashions are infused at every turn with romance, nostalgia, and make-believe. Through the looking glass of fashion, designers conjoin disparate stylistic references into a pastiche of Chinese aesthetic and cultural traditions.
The exhibition features more than 140 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear alongside Chinese art. Filmic representations of China are incorporated throughout to reveal how our visions of China are framed by narratives that draw upon popular culture, and also to recognize the importance of cinema as a medium through which to understand the richness of Chinese history. 

Guo Pei

          

 
   
     

Jean Paul Gaultier

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/china-through-the-looking-glass


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    FIT NEW YORK 
One of New York City’s premier public institutions, FIT is an internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business. We’re known for our rigorous, unique, and adaptable academic programming, experiential learning opportunities, academic and industry partnerships, and commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Our Mission

Mission  

FIT prepares students for professional excellence in design and business through rigorous and adaptable academic programs, experiential learning and innovative partnerships. A premier public institution in New York City, FIT fosters creativity, career focus, and a global perspective and educates its students to embrace inclusiveness, sustainability and a sense of community.

Vision 
FIT will be globally celebrated as the institution where students, scholars, and teachers cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to stimulate innovation, partner with creative industries worldwide, and develop innovative design and business solutions. By focusing on the three major goals, FIT will become stronger by conscious design and be known as a strategic organization—one that applies available resources to greatest effect to achieve its vision.

Academic and Creative Excellence 

FIT will provide a rigorous learning experience built on the highest standards of academic and scholarly excellence; an environment that promotes creativity and experimentation; and diverse experiential learning with a variety of industry partners.

An Innovation Center 

The college will work with industries worldwide to help address key challenges, build an even stronger culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at FIT, and establish collaborations that translate creative ideas into action.

An Empowering Student Community 

FIT will build an inclusive community in which students engage with, learn from, and inspire each other—discovering how their differences and similarities promote creativity, intellectual and personal growth, and understanding.

http://www.fitnyc.edu

❤️🌹Unconditional Love from Mother to daughter @AdrianaSassoon #FIT #fashion #beauty #textile #design #education #youngarts With Isabella Sassoon visiting FIT Museum @NYCINYOUR20S 💋😘

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🌹💋Having fun @VictoriasSecret❤️😘@AdrianaSassoon & IsabellaSassoon 😍🍄

 

 
  
       

🇧🇷👊Getting inspired by The Brazilian Top Models. We are 🇧🇷🙏

   
     

🌺Izabel Goulart🌷 Gisele Bündchen💐 Alessandra Ambrosio,🌹Adriana Lima.🌸

  
#tbt #AdrianaSassoon @VictoriasSecret @AdrianaSassoon @ELITENYC

  

Fun time! 
  

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Spending the Day at @Dior NYC with my mini me 🙂

  
@Dior “Fève Délicieuse” is the new opus from La Collection Privée Christian Dior @AdrianaSassoon #IsabellaSassoon #AdrianaSassoon @nycgov #fashion #fashionista 

http://youtu.be/Q7uvK8ikgcg

@Dior Learn how to create a Dior catwalk eyelook with Diorshow. #diorshowbackstage

 


Just checking the new Dior sneakers with sequin pink and black in style now. A Mother daughter Day 😘❤️💐🌸🌼🌹🌺🌻🌷 Isabella’s wearing sequin toulle dress, with flower appliqué and flowered summer sandals.

 

 

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 Never to late to see the Documentary.

   
             

THE FILM

Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director—a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure- filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand’s past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons’ vision.


  

Frédéric Tcheng is a French-born filmmaker. Originally trained in civil engineering, he moved to New York City in 2002 to attend Columbia University’s film school, from which he obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in 2007. He co- produced, co-edited and co-shot Valentino: The Last Emperor (directed by Matt Tyrnauer), the 2009 hit documentary shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar. He is the co-director (with Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt) of DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL, a Samuel Goldwyn release. His collaborations include such varied personalities as the poet Sarah Riggs and the fashion photographer Mikael Jansson. He works as an editor on commercials for brands such as H&M, Jimmy Choo and Ferragamo. He is currently developing a fictional screenplay. @frederictcheng

 

Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995.

 In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. 

Languages spoken Belgium has three official languages: French, Dutch and German.

 

 

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Natalia Vasilyeva she is a portraitist and artist from Moscow (Russia).

Her services include:

Portrait order based on a photograph (I draw woman and children).
Fashion illustrations.
I make phone cases with my drawings and exclusive cases with the portraits I draw.
Also I sell original and prints of the ready works.

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“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
Coco Chanel

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Coco Chanel launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, which was the first to feature a designer’s name.

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A Fashion Machine

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Preppy, preppie, or prep (all abbreviations of the word preparatory) refer to a subculture in the United States associated with private university-preparatory schools.

That’s why it has this college flair. “The Ivy Style.”

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When all started

Preppy fashion started around 1912 to the late 1940s and 1950s as the Ivy League style of dress.
Press is the quintessential preppy clothing brand, stemming from the collegiate traditions that shaped the preppy subculture.
In the mid-twentieth century J. Press and Brooks Brothers, both being pioneers in preppy fashion, had stores on Ivy League school campuses, including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

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Preppy styles also reflect traditional upper class New England leisure activities, such as equestrianism, sailing or yachting, hunting, fencing, rowing, lacrosse, tennis, golf, and rugby.
Longtime New England outdoor outfitters, such as L.L. Bean.

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Vacationing in Palm Beach, Florida, long popular with the East Coast upper class, led to the emergence of bright colour combinations in leisure wear seen in some brands such as Lilly Pulitzer, Lacoste, Dooney & Bourke, Izod, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren.
In 1960s, a trend led by designers such as Perry Ellis, and influenced by designers such as Oleg Cassini.

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Style Icon: Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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Some “cultural icons” of preppy style for professional women include Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and 20th century New York socialites Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley, Slim Keith, and C. Z. Guest, all women whose style is often referenced by designers.

In recent years, newer outfitters such as Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, Vineyard Vines, and Elizabeth McKay are also frequently perceived as having preppy styles, with designers such as Marc Jacobs and Luella Bartley adding the preppy style into their clothes in the 1990s.
New York City maintains itself as the headquarters for most preppy clothing lines, such as J. Press, Brooks Brothers, Daniel Cremieux, Ralph Lauren, and Kate Spade New York, underscoring preppy subculture as a reflection of Northeastern culture.

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Classic Style is Forever – Less is More!
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