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Press

  • Maternity Corsets and Vintage ‘Stoutwear’: Charting 250 Years of Fashion and the Body
    Jezebel
    March 20, 2018
  • What is ‘ideal’ female body shape?
    BBC
    January 24, 2018
  • How Fashion Has Constricted Women’s Bodies Over 250 Years
    Hyperallergic
    January 17, 2018
  • Museum at FIT Show Explores Body Politics and Proportions
    Fashion Network
    December 8, 2017
  • The Museum at FIT Takes a 250-Year Look at the Ideal Body in Fashion
    WWD
    December 6, 2017
  • How Museums and Cultural Institutions have Shaped the History of Body Diversity
    Fashionista
    December 6, 2017
  • A New Show at the Museum at FIT Considers the Fashionable Body, Then and Now
    Vogue
    December 5, 2017
  • MFIT Curator McClendon on “The Body: Fashion and Physique”
    FIT Newsroom
    December 4, 2017
  • In Quest for the Ideal Body: the Exhibition Fashion and Physique
    Dreaming Of
    October 30, 2017
  • The Museum at FIT Explores Ideal Bodies
    Fashion Unfiltered
    October 16, 2017

Press Release

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The Body: Fashion and Physique December 5, 2017 ­– May 5, 2018
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