On Thursday, October 20, 2016, The Museum at FIT will hold its 16th fashion symposium, Proust’s Muse. The day-long symposium begins at 10 a.m. with Laurent Cotta and Valerie Steele in conversation about Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe. They are followed by Laure Hillerin, the Countess’s biographer, Françoise Tétart-Vittu on the golden age of Paris fashion, and Philippe Thiebaut on the dandy-poet Count Robert de Montesquiou.

There will be a lunch break from 1 to 2 pm, resuming with a lecture by Caroline Weber on the Countess Greffulhe and the costume balls of fin‑de‑siècle Paris, followed by five more exciting talks on fashion, art, literature, and dance in Paris, concluding with a look at the influence of the Countess Greffulhe on contemporary fashion. Finally, from 5:15 to 6 pm there will be a live concert with music inspired by Proust’s Muse, the Countess Greffulhe.

For more details and to register for this FREE event, please visit our website.