Dance and Fashion Symposium: Patricia Mears "From Sylph to Swan: The Tutu and Fashion"

Patricia Mears at The Museum at FIT's 14th annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, held on October 23 & 24, 2014.The fourteenth annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, explored how dance costume has inspired fashion, and how fashion designers have increasingly been creating dance costumes.Patricia Mears, deputy director of The Museum at FIT, has curated a number of exhibitions, including Elegance in an Age of Crisis, Ivy Style, and the upcoming YSL + Halston: Fashioning the 70s