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Meet the Future of Fashion: 50 Stunning Student Designs
Anyone who thinks there’s nothing new happening in fashion doesn’t know where to look. See 50 of our favorite student designs that walked the runway this month.
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Reem Acra & Valerie Steele Take on Gender Bias in Fashion
Photo: “85% of FIT’s students are female,” began celebrated fashion historian and curator Valerie Steele at Tuesday night’s panel discussion during CUNY’s Global Fashion Capital Conference. “Yet if you go by famous names—the Armanis, the Marc Jacobs—more than half of them are men.” The panel, which also included successful female designer Reem Acra, centered on women’s roles in the industry, as well as how the media and an increasingly global economy are helping to shape new fashion capitals.
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Outrageous Looks, RuPaul & Lactating Performers: Inside The World Of NY Nightlife Queen Susanne Bartsch
Susanne Bartsch has been New York’s regnant Queen of the Night since moving here in the early 1980s. Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, a new exhibition at the Museum at FIT in New York curated by Bartsch and FIT’s Valerie Steele, sheds light on her enduring influence. Yahoo Style caught up with the scene queen before the exhibition’s opening night. One is devoted to the early days, when I came to New York in the early ′80s, and the second is about what I wear—my “transformations
