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Proust’s Muse Symposium

Cover for La comtesse Greffulhe L’ombre des Guermantes

Cover for La comtesse Greffulhe L’ombre des Guermantes


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.

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How did Latin America influence Marcel Proust’s life & work? On Thursday, September 29 at 6pm, The Museum at FIT welcomed Rubén Gallo, professor of Latin American literature at Princeton University, for a presentation of his new book, Proust’s Latin Americans. Professor Gallo presented the amusing social history about the friendships & love affairs among a circle of Latin American friends that included the composer Reynaldo Hahn, Proust’s Venezuelan lover; Gabriel de Yturri, an Argentinean dandy; José-Maria de Heredia, a Cuban poet and early literary model; Antonio de La Gandara, a Mexican society painter; and Ramon Fernandez, a brilliant Mexican critic turned Nazi sympathizer.


A book signing followed the presentation. Video of this Fashion Culture event will be made available soon.