(New York, February 11, 2025) — NYU Costume Studies and 80 Washington Square East Gallery are pleased to announce educational and event programming for Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into …, a group curated exhibition exploring how fashion fantasies have been created by designers, produced by the fashion industry, and interpreted by consumers.
The first educational event, The State of Independent Fashion Retail, will be held on Monday, February 24, 2025. This panel discussion will feature: Rodney Patterson, founder of Esenshel, a millinery brand that recently introduced ready to wear designs; Valentina Pozo, founder of Tumbao, an experimental retail business with the world’s largest collection of Latin American fashion designers; and Laura Wills, founder of Screaming Mimi’s, a vintage boutique offering a wide range of clothing and accessories from early to late 20th century. The moderator of this panel discussion is Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the instructor for the NYU Costume Studies Curatorial Praxis course. This conversation will center around entrepreneurship, community, curation, and survival in New York’s retail economy, and will take place at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Einstein Auditorium at 6 pm.
The second educational event, Inspirations Behind Framing Fashion Fantasies will be held on Monday, March 3, 2025. An intimate panel discussion with curators of the group exhibition, the event is conceived as a multimedia conversation highlighting the process, influences, and afterlife of each window featured in this exhibition. The panel will include movies, literature, and music that provide additional context for each window, encouraging further investigation. This conversation will also take place at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Einstein Auditorium at 5pm.
Additional educational material in support of Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into … includes lesson plans provided to high school teachers and students; a supplementary reading list; and an interview with designer Hushidar Mortezaie, an Iranian-American fashion designer and artist, who describes maintaining an East Village retail business in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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The State of Independent Fashion Retail
Monday, February 24, 2025, 6pm
NYU Barney Building, Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY 10003
Inspirations Behind Framing Fashion Fantasies
Monday, March 3, 2025, 5pm
NYU Barney Building, Einstein Auditorium
34 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY 10003
Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into… is curated by the NYU Costume Studies Masters Candidates: Zoé Berteloot, Haley Brown, Kelly Flynn, Marissa Motley, Gillani Peets, and Erin Shaw, under the direction of Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
80WSE Gallery
Founded in 1974, 80 Washington Square East (80WSE), NYU is a not-for-profit gallery presenting contemporary and historical exhibitions. The gallery exhibits in two additional locations: Broadway Windows at Broadway and East 10th Street, and Washington Square Windows.
NYU Steinhardt
Located in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development prepares students for careers in the arts, education, health, media, and psychology. Since its founding in 1890, the Steinhardt School’s mission has been to expand human capacity through public service, global collaboration, research, scholarship, and practice. To learn more about NYU Steinhardt, visit steinhardt.nyu.edu.
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