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On November 17, 2011 The Museum
at FIT’s Couture Council hosted The Fall Fashion Cocktail at
The Soho Grand Hotel in the Club Room (310 West Broadway,
New York City) saluting new Couture Council members, fashion
professionals, and longtime fashion patrons.
The event was hosted by Michelle Harper (Board Member), Yaz
Hernandez (President of the Board), Liz Peek (Chairman of
the Board), Dr. Valerie Steele (Director of The Museum at
FIT), and the Couture Council Board of Directors.
Fashion industry guests included: Fabiola Arias, Gabi Asfour,
Victoria Bartlett (VPL), Patrick Bradbury (Bradbury Lewis),
Carlos Campos, Maria Cornejo, Christian Cota, Tracy Cyprow
(stylist), Angela Donhauser, Camilla Louise Elphick (- Donna
Karen), Adi Gil (Three As Four), Justin Giunta (Subversive
Jewelry), Hanuk, Heather Huey, Gemma Kahng, Billy Kidd
(photographer), Poppy King, Christian Lamgberin (-Giorgio
Armani Corporation), Bliss Lau,
Adam Lippes, Tan Mang Ling (model), Valeria “ValBlu”
McCulloch, Gregory Nato, Tom Scott, Marcia Sherrill (Anabelle),
Michelle Smith (Milly), Sasha Stiles (Cynthia Steffe & Chaus,
Inc.),
Rolando Santana, Justin Teodoro (Cynthia Steffe & Chaus,
Inc. Daniela Vargas (- Theory), Jessica Yohannan (jewelry
designer) and Dr. Valerie Steele, and Patricia Mears (deputy
director
of The Museum at FIT).
Notable guests attending included: Nate Berkus, Mickey
Boardman, Pablo Cisneros, Victor de Souza, Tom Gold (NYCB),
Audrey Gruss, George Kaufman, Agnes Gund, Chui-Ti Jensen,
Alexandra Lebenthal, Anita Sarko, and Sarah and Whitney
Wolfe.
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 at FIT 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 noted
designer with the Couture Council Award for Artistry of
Fashion.
Couture Council Annual Membership is $1,000 per individual
or couple; $500 for members over 35 years of age who are
actively working in the fashion industry (these are by
invitation
only); and $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, 227 West 27th Street, Director's Office,
Room E304, New York, NY 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 complimentary
admittance to all Museum educational programs, as well as to
the annual fashion symposium.
The board of directors of the Couture Council of The Museum
at FIT includes -Elizabeth Peek (chair), Yaz Hernàndez
(president), Joele Frank, Laura Lofaro
Freeman, Michèle Gerber
Klein, Anne S. Goldrach, Michelle Harper,
Celia Hegyi, Chiu-Ti Jansen, Eleanora Kennedy, Alexandra
Lebenthal, Kamie Lightburn, Doris P. Meister, Charlotte
Moss, Peter G. Scotese, Jean Shafiroff, Jieun Wax, and Sarah
G. Wolfe.
For more about The Couture Council visit
www.fitnyc.edu/couturecouncil
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.
Daphne Guinness is the subject of a major exhibition at The
Museum at FIT on view through January 7, 2012. Approximately
100 garments and accessories from her personal collection
are
featured, along with clothes that she has designed herself,
a selection of her vertiginous shoes, and her films, The
Phenomenology of the Body and Mnemosyne. The exhibition was
co-curated by Daphne Guinness and
Valerie Steele.
The Great Designers: Part One is the first of two upcoming
exhibitions that will highlight masterpieces from the
museum’s permanent collection. On view from November 29,
2011
through May 8, 2012., more than fifty garments and
accessories by designers from Alaïa to Zoran will be
featured, including work by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel,
Christian Dior, and Miuccia Prada.
The Great Designers, Part One and The Great Designers, Part
Two are being organized in celebration of The Museum at
FIT’s forthcoming book, The Great Designers: Fashion’s Hall
of
Fame from A to Z, to be published by TASCHEN in spring 2012.
The book will feature color photographs of 500 of the
museum’s masterpieces by 100 of history’s greatest fashion
designers.
A short biography of each of the featured designers will be
preceded by an extensive essay on the history of fashion
museums and exhibitions by Valerie Steele, director and
chief curator of The
Museum at FIT.
For more about The Museum at FIT, visit
www.fitnyc.edu/museum
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 46 majors leading to the AAS,
BFA, BS, MA, MFA, and MPS degrees. For more about FIT visit
www.fitnyc.edu |