Fashions at Museum at FIT Sept. 2018

We are visiting some of the cool fashions and exhibits at the Museum at FIT. Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color was on view from September 7, 2018 – January 5, 2019 and was really quite fantastic. This is a great stop for the lovers of fashion and it is free to view any of their exhibits. They also had some additional fashion on view The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange next door to the museum. It amazes me the talent and creativity these designers posses! 

 I love taking the waistline photos as it just shows so much detail  

 Museum at FIT Upcoming Exhibits: 

 Minimalism/Maximalism

Fashion & Textile History Gallery

May 28 – November 16, 2019 

Paris, Capital of Fashion

Special Exhibitions Gallery

September 6, 2019 – January 4, 2020 

Power Mode

Fashion & Textile History Gallery

December 10, 2019 – May 9, 2020 

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The Helmsley Building Park Avenue

While I was exploring the city, I found the doors that opened to allow you inside the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue. One entrance the doors are locked but the other they are open and I was so excited to go inside! It is really a gorgeous piece of architecture, Beaux-Arts style, which is my favorite! 

The Helmsley Building is a 35-story building located at 230 Park Avenue between East 45th and East 46th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, which was built in 1929 as the New York Central Building, and was designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, in the Beaux-Arts style. Before the erection of the Pan Am Building—now the MetLife Building—this building stood out over the city's second most prestigious avenue as the tallest structure in the great "Terminal City" complex around Grand Central.  

On September 10, 1931, capo di tutti capi Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in his ninth-floor office here by hitmen sent by Lucky Luciano and Vito Genovese, ambitious underlings whom Maranzano had hired Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll to kill. Quite a mafia story.  

How gorgeous is this interior? I just loved it! I have quite a fondness for gold.  

"The impressive lobby, planned as a corridor connecting 45th and 46th Streets, echoes the magnificence of the exterior. The design and ornamentation celebrate the prowess of the New York Central Railroad, which had its headquarters on the premises. A sense of imperial grandeur is created by marble walls and bronze detail, which includes extensive use of the railroad’s initials. The Chinese Red elevator doors open into cabs with red walls, wood moldings, gift domes, and painted cloudscapes. 

Their Christmas Tree was quite lovely.  

What a gorgeous chandelier!  

I loved everything about this area where the elevators were located. So much detail every place you look, it is kind of hard to keep up with it.  

Make sure you check out this building while walking along Park Avenue. It is quite an important piece of New York City history. 

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Jacqueline de Ribes The Art of Style The Masked Ball

I really felt these gowns needed to have their own post! They are so breathtaking, seeing them in person was a true joy! 

The exhibition culminates in a separate room called the Masked Ball. The three gowns here are fabulous magpie concoctions made from old dresses, trim, yardage, pompoms and fur, and each—a glittering Madwoman of Chaillot (1965), a hot-pink Scheherazade (1969), a swan-like Proustian duchess (1971)— just magic! I was viewing these with the British fashion journalist Suzy Menkes which was quite cool. Here are the gorgeous designs which I am sure will make you smile! 

I really didn't take these photos like this on purpose, but they actually almost match up to each other! Pretty wild I must say! Such gorgeous details on this one. 

Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style 

open until February 21, 2016

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

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