Today, my friends and I went to the FIT museum. To be honest, I don’t even know out of all the museums, why did we decided to go to this one. The museum, unlike our expectation, is really small. You can literally walk the entire museum in less than 5 minutes. But it wasn’t bad though, we saw a lot of interesting collections of clothes. The current exhibition at the museum is “Force of Nature.” This exhibition shows nature’s relationship to fashion and how designers were inspired by the nature. I was fascinated by the fact that designers can blend nature into a piece of clothing so perfectly. As I entered into the museum, the first piece that caught my eyes was a floral black dress. This dress was designed by Karl Lagerfeld in reference to a flower called camellia. I thought this was my favorite piece until I saw a dress that completely blow my mind. I can’t believe how this dress was right by the entrance and I missed it. Anyway, it’s called the Splash dress, designed by Iris van Herpen in 2013. Herpen used “hot air guns and metal pliers to mold sheets of acrylic.” The inspiration of this splash dress, like its name, came from water.
This is how it looks like. Can you believe this is an actual dress?!
In this visit, I learned a lot about the history of fashion and how basically everything can be related to fashion. Although this won’t really help me in the first semester at Baruch, it was fun to explore the places I’ve never been.
