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Fashion and food: Dueling obsessions at FIT

Fashion and food: Dueling obsessions at FIT

We don't know about you, but when narrative television is running thin, we're easily sucked into two specific genres of reality TV. We have now subjected ourselves to nearly every permutation of Top Chef and Project Runway (and their imitators and spinoffs). When we noticed that the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, just a block from our Manhattan Airbnb, had mounted an exhibition called “Food & Fashion,” we couldn't resist. Food and fashion have been inextricably linked since Adam and Eve donned fig leaves in the first documented example of unisex couture. The exhibition at FIT isn't quite as rooted in references to the Book of Genesis, but it does offer a banquet of food for thought. (So to speak.) Sections of the...Read More