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FIT Grads Served Body During This Year’s Future of Fashion Showcase

WWD·Ari Stark·21 days ago
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Last Monday, guests at the Met Gala were called on to interpret the “Art of Fashion,” specifically as it relates to different body types. Sounds like a design student’s senior thesis, no?  That could’ve been the case Thursday as many graduates from the Fashion Institute of Technology explored similar themes during their annual Future of Fashion showcase. Sebastian Matus (BFA) Getty Images for Fashion institute of Technology Sebastian Matus opened the sportswear section with a black zippered dress featuring winged cap sleeves and jutting squared-off hips. Naïma Naas’ pin-striped bustle coat followed, which the critic award winner padded between the shoulders, turning her model into a hunchback. Later on, the intimates section put the body on full display, but more surprisingly, knitwear completely transformed it with an eye toward surrealism. The highlights were a hoop-skirt reimagined as a circus tent and a blue duster cardigan with hands knitting a red scarf.…

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