The Sales Pitch presents a wide range of display mannequins used for visual merchandising. From early wax figures to the Theatre de la Mode fashion dolls to the new plus-size mannequins, this area of the exhibition illustrates the various forms, sizes, and silhouettes that display mannequins take, while challenging the ideals of beauty, consumption, desire, spectacle and style. Between Art and Fashion, which questions the ambiguity that has developed between art and fashion. Definining Mannequins is the result of a yearlong graduate seminar that explores all aspects of exhibition planning. FIT, a State University of New York college of art and design, business and technology, first introduced the Master of Arts degree program in Museum Studies in 1985.
Admission is free.
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