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Fashion Articles

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Model poses with a wing-like structure attached to the back of a black dress.
MIT Gala 2024, credit Jack Field Studio.

Student Voices: Lights! Camera! Fashion! The 2024 MIT Gala Finds Success On- and Off-Stage

This article was originally published by The Tech. The epitome of fashion and art Students on the second floor of the Student Center peered inside Lobdell, amazed by the sights. Outside, a sparkly photo booth for all guests, dutifully manned … Continued

Rila Shishido walks the runway in a design by Shua Cho at the MIT Gala 2023.
Rila Shishido in Shua Cho. MIT Gala 2023.

Student Voices: Backstage at MIT Gala—Community and Creation

Arts, fashion, determination, and community culminate at an event by student-run Infinite Magazine A gallery of art by independent creators, creations from classes on campus, and a runway where MIT models strut, displaying designers’ work, were all showcased at MIT … Continued

A student looks closely at a sculpture made of wood, metal, and wires.
ACT Graduate and 2018 Schnitzer Prize Second Place Recipient Nicolás Kisic Aguirre with his Modular Rhythm Machine. Credit: Design Indaba.

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts was established in 1996 through an endowment from Harold and Arlene Schnitzer of Portland, Oregon. Schnitzer, a real estate investor, graduated from MIT in 1944 with a degree in metallurgy. … Continued

WEARABLE Panelist Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn/Winter Collection, 2007.
WEARABLE Panelist Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn/Winter Collection, 2007.

Leila Kinney Discusses “Being Material”

MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte predicted in 1995 that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later, our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy … Continued

Fashion show runway featuring a line of models in colorful outfits.
Descience Runway. Courtesy of the artists.

Don’t you look smart!: Descience fuses fashion and science

Fashion had an unlikely muse at the Descience Fashion Show, a runway competition hosted in MIT’s Media Lab. Instead of the usual celebrities and socialites, the designers drew their inspiration from molecular biologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, climatologists and scientists from … Continued

Gallery display with large wooden boxes and a hanging panel of fabric covered in square photos.
Credit: Judith M. Daniels/ Courtesy of the MIT Museum

MIT Professor Azra Akšamija: Creating Community Amid Conflict

Exhibit by MIT professor Azra Akšamija explores how art and architecture can act as vehicles for community making in contexts of conflict and crisis.

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