Food and fashion: from sourdough and sweatpants to cuisine and couture, how they intersect in our history
- From McDonald’s-inspired Moschino lines to slow fashion copying slow food, cuisine and couture have combined to make statements and taken cues from each other
- A collection of essays explores the intersection between the two through time, touching on sustainability, self-expression, gender, eating disorders and more
Sourdough and sweatpants truly defined the Covid era – the time when home comforts reigned supreme.
It was also when the recently published tome Food & Fashion was pulled together, when authors Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way – curators at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), in New York – were working from home for extended periods of time.
Marra-Alvarez and Way’s work provides the foundation for an exhibition to be held this September at The Museum at FIT, where visitors will be able to examine important fashion archive pieces and dioramas that touch on the spaces where cuisine and couture connect.
“These two things are the most indicative of this idea of the art of living,” says Way. “We all have to dress ourselves, and we all have to eat. And we can do that on a very basic sustenance level, or we can use it as a conduit for our personalities, whether it’s to show off on social media or to communicate your values.”
