IVY STYLE ::
BACK TO COLLEGE
From “True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World” and before “The Official Preppy Handbook“, bibles on preppy thought edited by Lisa Birnbach, to Ivy Style, an exhibition that tells the story of one of the most famous and enduring trends of the 20th century.
From its founding in 1910, in America’s most prestigious campuses, to contemporary reinterpretations, the Preppy is presented in the exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with an unprecedented show divided by subject areas designed to recall the three main periods of the evolution of Ivy League Look: the one between the two wars, from 1920 to 1930, the follower, from post-world War until 1960, until the most recent revivals from the 80′s to nowadays. With preppy style, appropriate for every situation, from daywear to sportswear, from casual clothing to the typical college clothes at Cambridge, Princeton or Harvard, t-shirts, polo shirts, cardigans (in the traditional British colours red, green bottle, navy blue and beige), an indispensable accessory and a tweed or tartan cloth, long and narrow capri model trousers or chinos, become inevitable pieces for the wardrobe of a man in Ivy Style.
Curated by Patricia Mars, the show about the timeless style – celebrated, among the others, by Polo Ralph Lauren, Lacoste, Gant, Brooks Brothers and of course Tommy Hilfiger -, will open on September 14!
Giulia Fasanella
22.08.2012
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- Orange blazer with 1919 Princeton University insignia, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Brooks Uniform Company, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Striped cotton blazer, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Detail of navy blazer with gold buttons by J. Press, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Chipp, madras jacket, gift of Glenn Forbes, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Blue blazer with 1916 Yale insignia worn by the lender’s great-grandfather, Yale Class of 1916, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- Raccoon fur coat worn by Joseph Verner Reed, Yale Class of 1926, gift of Ambassador Joseph Verner Reed, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
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- From left to right: Harris Tweed ready-made brown cashmere sport coat, 1975; Prince of Wales Glen plaid cashmere sport coat from W. Bill, 1968; Prince of Wales Glen plaid cashmere sport coat, 1972, all owned by Paul Press of J. Press, photo by Eileen Costa, Courtesy of the Museum at FIT
IVY STYLE
The Museum at FIT
227 West 27th Street
web: www.fitnyc.edu/museum
New York, from September 14, 2012, to January 5, 2013
