New York, NY, January 9, 2024- On Monday, January 22, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open its new exhibition “The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion,” focusing on a scene of artists and fashion designers from the past ten years who have re-established New York as a global leader in experimental fashion. The reception will be held on Thursday, February 8 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Curated by Jennifer Minniti, Chair of Pratt Institute’s Fashion Department, alongside fashion curator Matthew Linde, the exhibition draws inspiration from The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s influential 1986 fashion exhibition, “The East Village”, and spotlights an ecosystem of smaller fashion brands, visionary designers embracing do-it-yourself fashion, and artists who have been crucial collaborators traversing the boundaries between fashion and art, featuring names such as Eckhaus Latta, SC103, and Telfar.
“The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion will showcase the work of a generation of influential artists, designers, and collectives whose emergent and avant-garde artistic practices are flourishing through fashion,” said Jennifer Minniti, Chair of Pratt Institute’s Fashion Design Department.
“This exhibition points to an alternative history to the commercialism that has traditionally defined New York’s fashion industry,” said curator Matthew Linde. “It emphasizes an amorphous group of practitioners who have reshaped the fashion capital from the fringes and whose influence has altered the global fashion scene.” The artists, designers, and collectives featured in the exhibition work across various mediums, including garments, videos, sculptures, drawings, installations, and poetry, to amplify and reflect the philosophy of defining fashion as cultural messaging through clothes. This vast collection of their work accentuates the political and social challenges facing contemporary society through the lens of creative industries.
