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FIT Couture Council Summer Party 2010
 

FIT Couture Council Summer Party 2010
August 17, 2010
 

Photos by:  Joyce Brooks

Cassandra Seidenfeld-Lyster, Couri Hay, Maggie Norris,
Dr Joyce F Brown (President of F.I.T), & Dr. Valerie Steele (Director & Chief Curator of the Museum at F.I.T.

Chairman, Yaz Hernandez

Chaiman, Liz Peek

Simon van Kempen  and Alex McCord

Alexa Winner and Cassandra Seidenfeld-Lyster

Roger Webster, Eleanora and Michael Kennedy

Gail B. Karr, Jean Shafiroff, Yaz Hernandez,
Cassandra Seidenfeld-Lyster and Sandra Drespel

Maggie Norris and Michelle Gerber-Klein

Chance von Spiessbach, Rose Hartman and Tom Gates

Lucia Hwong-Gordon

Tia Walker and Cassandra Seidenfeld-Lyster

Joyce Brooks and Maggie Norris.

Carson Kressley

The Couture Council of The Museum at the
 Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will honor
Karl Lagerfeld with a special award on
Friday, September 10th
at a benefit  luncheon at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. 
Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT,
 announced, “In recognition of his unparalleled role as a
creative force in the world of fashion, we have chosen to bestow on Karl Lagerfeld, The Couture Council Fashion Visionary Award. This unique award was created exclusively for Karl Lagerfeld.  Since his arrival at Chanel in 1983, Karl Lagerfeld has brought the company to the forefront of innovation and creativity and has continuously maintained Chanel's position as the most coveted fashion label in the world. Not only is Lagerfeld an inimitable designer, he is also an acclaimed photographer, publisher, renowned collector, and a true connoisseur.”

About The Couture Council:

The Couture Council is a membership group dedicated to supporting The Museum at FIT, a specialized museum of fashion.  The Couture Council helps make it possible for The Museum to mount world-class exhibitions of fashion, to acquire important objects for its permanent collection, and to organize public programs, such as the annual fashion symposium.  The Couture Council accomplishes these goals through collecting membership dues and by organizing fundraising events such as the annual Couture Council Awards Luncheon, which presents a chosen designer with the Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion.

Couture Council Annual Membership is $1,000 per individual or couple, or $350 for Young Associates (under the age of 35). Membership is tax deductible to the extent provided by law. Please make checks payable to the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries. Mail checks to The Museum at FIT, attention: Couture Council, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, Director's Office, Room E304, New York City 10001-5992.

Members of the Couture Council receive invitations to at least five special events a year, including behind-the-scenes tours of The Museum's collection and exhibitions, opening receptions, and visits to the ateliers of fashion designers in New York. Couture Council members are also the first to receive notice of the annual Couture Council Artistry of Fashion Award luncheon.

In addition, Couture Council Members receive complementary admittance for two to all Museum educational programs, as well as the annual fashion symposium, which includes an invitation to meet the speakers at a cocktail reception at the home of Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, The Museum at FIT.

The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT recently established a board of directors that includes Liz Peek (Interim Chair), Yaz Hernandez (Interim Vice Chair), Adrienne Vitadinni, Alexandra Lebenthal, Charlotte Moss, Suzi Cordish, Michelle Harper, Celia Hegyi, Eleanora Kennedy, Michele Gerber Klein, Peter G. Scotese, Jean Shafiroff, and Whitney Wolfe.

About The Museum at FIT:

The Museum at FIT is the only museum in New York City dedicated solely to the art of fashion. Best known for its innovative and award-winning exhibitions, which have been described by Roberta Smith in The New York Times as “ravishing,” the museum has a collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present.  Like other fashion museums, such as the Musée de la Mode, the Mode Museum, and the Museo de la Moda, The Museum at FIT collects, conserves, documents, exhibits, and interprets fashion. The museum’s mission is to advance knowledge of fashion through exhibitions, publications, and public programs.  

Upcoming exhibitions include Eco-Fashion, Going Green, on view May 25 - November 26, 2010, and Japan Fashion Now on view September 17, 2010 - January 8, 2011.

Eco-Fashion: Going Green is an exhibition exploring the evolution of the fashion industry’s multifaceted and complex relationship with the environment.  By examining the past two centuries of fashion’s good—and bad— environmental and ethical practices. Eco-Fashion: Going Green provides historical context for today’s eco-fashion movement. Presented chronologically and featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles, the exhibition uses contemporary methods for “going green” as a framework to study the past. The objects displayed touch upon at least one of six major themes: the re-purposing and recycling of materials, fiber origins, textile dyeing and production, quality of craftsmanship, labor practices, and the treatment of animals.  Curated by Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, the exhibition features some of the finest examples of 21st-century sustainable fashions by current, cutting-edge labels, including Alabama Chanin, Edun, FIN, and NOIR.

Japan Fashion Now is the first exhibition to explore contemporary Japanese fashion in all its radical creativity, including not only avant-garde high fashion, but also street and sub-cultural styles, menswear, and new designers.
 Set in a dramatic mise-en-scene evoking

Tokyo’s iconic cityscape, approximately 100 ensembles will be on display. Designers featured include Jun Takahashi of Undercover (described by journalist Suzy Menkes as “the essence of Japanese cool”); Hirooka Naoto, the designer behind h.NAOTO, Japan’s most successful Gothic-Punk-Lolita fashion empire; and new designer brands such as Sacai, Visvim, Phenomenon, and Matohu.  “Japan continues to be on the cutting edge, even the bleeding edge, of fashion,” says exhibition curator, Dr. Valerie Steele. “But it has moved far beyond the cerebral deconstructed looks of the 1980s
Japanese fashion revolution.”

About FIT:

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), of which The Museum at FIT is a part, is a college of art and design, business and technology that educates more than 10,000 students annually. FIT is a college of the State University of New York (SUNY), and offers 44 majors leading to the AAS, BFA, BS, MA, and MPS degrees.  
Please visit www.fitnyc.edu 

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The FIT Couture Council’s Annual Summer Party
 is generously sponsored by
 

To list an upcoming event please contact:
joyce@blacktiemagazine.com