the museum at FIT

On our rainy museum Friday we decided we would head to the museum at FIT as a we had both seen some interesting posts about it online (and y11 me was so set on moving to new york one day that she very nearly applied to FIT so I kind of wanted to nosy round the school and see what I was missing).

However, before this we called in for some food because lets be real here- priorities.

We stopped off at a place i was recommended by a friend of a friend, a real life New Yorker and FIT atendee (shoutout Kailee you star), Brooklyn Bagels. We were far from dissapointed. I decided to throw Veganuary to the wind and went for a plain bagel toasted, which was loaded with Strawberry cream cheese and quite frankly it was heaven in a cicular shaped pile of carbs.

With our stomachs filled to the brim, we rolled our way down the two blocks towards FIT. The museum was much smaller than I had anticipated but it was definitely a display quality not quantity.

The topic of the body in fashion is something I find really interesting and it was cool to see how the pieces had been curated to show how the ideal 'fashion' body has changed so dramatically though the ages.

My favourite piece was the comme des garcons' dress which Kawakubo had designed specifically to distort the figure of the wearer- essentially as a two fingers to stereotypical beauty types. The whimsical gingham check reminded me of my school summer dress- but never the less remained beautiful. I also liked to see some of the more modern developments with the reference to the range of body shapes and sizes designers now cater towards- with references in the exhibition to figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Ashley Graham. As well as this I liked the way the exhibits acknowledged the darker side of the body positivity movement- in the way that some extreme cases it has been known to glorify obesity and justify an unhealthy lifestyle. The museum tackled this issue in a balanced and logical way and I was both pleased and impressed by that.

I defiently rated the FIT museum, having not known what to expect I was pleasantly suprised by the whole thing.