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Curator Discusses Her Show about FIT Founder Max Meyer and Alumna Artist Daria Dorosh

AuthorAdministrator REG_DATE2023.08.07 Hits475

In the early decades of the 20th century, FIT founder and president Max Meyer (1876–1953), then a buyer for a major New York City cloak and suit manufacturer, commissioned thousands of drawings of French couture designs to be licensed for production in the U.S..

A new show in FIT’s Art and Design Gallery, Unconventional Then, Now, & Always: A Helix of FIT Influence from Max Meyer to Daria Dorosh, juxtaposes some of these watercolor and ink images from houses such as Chanel, Poiret, and Lanvin with comparable examples of actual garments from the study collection of FIT’s graduate program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice. 

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