Educational and Event Programming for Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into…

(New York, February 11, 2025) — NYU Costume Studies and Washington Square East Galleries are pleased to announce educational and event programming for Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into …, a group curated exhibition exploring how fashion fantasies have been created by designers, produced by the fashion industry, and interpreted by consumers. 

The first educational event, The State of Independent Fashion Retail,  will be held on Monday, February 24, 2025. This panel discussion will feature: Rodney Patterson, founder of Esenshel, a millinery brand that recently introduced ready to wear designs; Valentina Pozo, founder of Tumbao, an experimental retail business with the world’s largest collection of Latin American fashion designers; and Laura Wills, founder of Screaming Mimi’s, a vintage boutique offering a wide range of clothing and accessories from early to late 20th century. The moderator of this panel discussion is Stephanie Kramer, Senior Research Associate of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the instructor for the NYU Costume Studies Curatorial Praxis course. This conversation will center around entrepreneurship, community, curation and survival in New York’s retail economy, and will take place at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Einstein Auditorium at 6 pm.

The second educational event, Inspirations Behind Framing Fashion Fantasies will be held on Monday, March 3, 2025. An intimate panel discussion with curators of the group exhibition,  the event is conceived as a multimedia conversation highlighting the process, influences, and afterlife of each window featured in this exhibition. The panel will include movies, literature, and music that provide additional context for each window,  encouraging further investigation. This conversation will also take place at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Einstein Auditorium at 5pm.

Additional educational material in support of Framing Fashion Fantasies: Windows Into … includes lesson plans provided to high school teachers and students; a supplementary reading list; and an interview with designer Hushidar Mortezaie, an Iranian-American fashion designer and artist, who describes maintaining an East Village retail business in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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