MFIT on the Road
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The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions to use in exhibitions. Watch this space for venues featuring MFIT on the road.
Liz Collins: Motherlode
July 19, 2025 – January 11, 2026
The Museum at FIT has loaned a dress to Liz Collins: Motherlode. The exhibition celebrates the richly varied career and work of the New York-based Queer feminist artist known for her bold abstract patterns, inventive use of materials, and radical experiments with fiber. Over the past three decades, Collins (b. 1968) has excavated deep below the surface of established ways of making, bringing to light eye-dazzling creations that disrupt the boundaries between art, design, and craft.
RISD Museum
Providence, Rhode Island
Image: Liz Collins, Lumberjack Goddess dress, 2005, gift of Liz Collins, 2016.23.1
Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses
November 9, 2025 – February 1, 2026
The Museum at FIT has loaned three objects from Emilio Pucci, Romeo Gigli, and Versace to Renaissance to Runway:The Enduring Italian Houses. Through the majestic creations of more than 100 modern and contemporary Italian fashions and accessories in dialogue with Italian fine, decorative, and textile arts from the 1400s to the early 1600s, Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses examines the art historical inspirations that fuel recent creative Italian lexicon, expanding fantasies of the Renaissance, Mannerist, and early Baroque periods. This exhibition illustrates how fashion, in all of its change, is a continuous thread that uncovers history’s complexities as it materializes contemporary beauty.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Image: Romeo Gigli, shoes, spring/summer 1998, Italy, gift of Romeo Gigli, 98.123.2