Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Fall 2024: African Diaspora
Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
About this Item
- Title
- Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Fall 2024: African Diaspora
- Date
- 2024
- Summary
- The show, featuring garments created by FIT's second-year Fashion Design students, takes its inspiration from The Museum at FIT's (MFIT) exhibition Africa's Fashion Diaspora. Both exhibitions delve into themes of identity, resilience, and creativity, celebrating the contributions of African-descendant communities to style and self-expression in fashion design. By exploring the interconnectedness of Black culture across borders, the exhibitions invite visitors from all backgrounds to engage in this shared narrative, emphasizing the dynamic role of African influence in the contemporary fashion landscape.
- The students' design process began with in-depth research, which held particular significance for a number of students as they explored their own cultural heritage within the African Diaspora and incorporated personal elements into their work. Once the initial design concepts were completed, students collaborated closely with FIT professors and industry critics to transform their 2D illustrations into fully realized 3D garments.
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This interdisciplinary project features garments by fashion design students, illustrations inspired by African textiles, and documentary photography that captures the design process.
Illustration students explored African patterns and human forms, while Photography students documented each phase of the design process bringing this collective exploration of identity, resilience, and creativity to life. - Description
- Program/Degree: Fashion Design AAS
- Course: FD 227 Design Studio IV: Advanced Draping
- Semester: Fall 2024
- Exhibition date: December 14, 2024-January 29, 2025
- Location: Art and Design Gallery at FIT
- Type
- Still Image
- Exhibitions (events)
- Annuals (exhibitions)
- Exhibition installation photographs
- Fashion design
- Rights
- In Copyright
- All images in this record are created by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and the properties of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of these images, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. These images have been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in these images and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fd-aas_2024F_exhibition
Citation
Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Fall 2024: African Diaspora. (2024). FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/676793
Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Fall 2024: African Diaspora. 2024. FIT Institutional Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/676793
"Fashion Design AAS Exhibition Fall 2024: African Diaspora." FIT Institutional Repository, 2024. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/676793