Layton Kuchinski

Research Project

The textile world and how I can fit in with it!

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Tues - Fri Noon - 8pm , Saturday 10am - 5pm. Closed Sundays, Mondays, and legal holidays.
Admission to the exhibitions is free.
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
- Fashion and Textile History Gallery
  - Exoticism—250 years of fashion inspired by diverse cultures from around the world
  - Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion--work of the great Parisian couturiere, Madame Alix Grès
- Costume Collection
  - consists of more than 50,000 objects dating from the mid-18th century to the present
- Textile Collection
  - The textile collection includes apparel and home furnishing fabrics, laces, embroideries, quilts, and shawls
- Educational Programs
  - Talk & Tour
    - Exoticism
    - Monday, March 3 from 6-7 pm
    - Fashion and Textile History Gallery
    - Ethnic influences permeate decorative elements in fashion. Join Molly Sorkin, assistant curator of costume, on a tour through Exoticism, as she examines how designers have interpreted “the exotic” through garment construction and surface embellishment

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Monday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m, Friday: 10 a.m.–9 p.m, Saturday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m, Sunday: Noon–6 p.m.
students with I.D. $10.00
located on Museum Mile, at the corner of 91st Street and Fifth Avenue
- Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product
  - exhibition objects will include sample books of wallcoverings; woven and printed textiles; ribbons, lace and embroidery; sample plates; and drawings and prints showing design alternatives
- Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection
  - The selected pieces, which range from book illustrations and jewelry, to furniture and wallpaper designs, blend unexpected media, layer varied forms, and weave intricate patterns and lines
- Textile Collections
  - Special strengths:
    - woven European silks from the 13th through 18th centuries
    - 18th- and early 19th-century French and English printed fabric
    - nearly 1,000 embroidered samplers
    - classic European laces from the 16th and 17th centuries
    - a collection of costume accessories, including fans, hats, and bags from the 17th through 19th centuries
  - Textiles is open to visitors by advance appointment. Please contact the department for further information, at least two weeks prior to anticipated visit
  - 212.849.8452

The Metropolitan Museum of Art—the Costume Institute
Friday-Saturday 9:30am-9:00pm, Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday 9:30am-5:30pm, closed Monday
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
student $10
- blog.mode: addressing fashion
  - The exhibition presents some forty costumes and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present
- Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
  - May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008 (WHY?!?)
  - explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero

Parsons the New School for Design
- Fashion Campus Tour, reservation required
  - Monday--10:00, 11:00, 2:00
  - Tuesday--12:00, 1:00
  - Wednesday--12:00, 1:00
  - Friday--10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 3:00, 3:30

Fashion Institute of Technology
- Information Sessions, no reservation required unless in group 5+
  - Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday at 12:00