HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: For many, reading about museum exhibitions is inevitably easier than actually trekking out to see them. Next month the Museum at FIT will unveil what amounts to a recap of some of its shows from the past half-century.
In honor of the museum’s silver anniversary, “Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT” will spotlight 33 of its greatest hits, so to speak, drawing from its permanent collection. While FIT’s Couture Council may be well-versed about “Shoe Obsession,” “Daphne Guinness,” “A Queer History of Fashion,” “Fairy Tale Fashion,” “Black Fashion Designers,” “American Beauty,” and some of the other shows that are represented in the retrospective, less-informed museum goers can get a crash course of sorts. The museum’s director and chief curator Valerie Steele and curator of costume and accessories Colleen Hill had a lot of pieces to cull through again and again.
Originally known as the Design Laboratory and Galleries at FIT, the two-floor location at Seventh Avenue and 27th Street was renamed The Museum at FIT in 1994. The American Alliance of Museums accredited it in 2012. In 1971, after MGM executives heard that the museum’s first director Robert Riley pulled together a show that featured designs by Gilbert
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