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Did you know that since 2015, the official New York Fashion Week schedule has been stewarded by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (@cfda )? CFDA and the Fashion Calendar Research Database have partnered on the next phase of FCRD’s initiative to preserve and make archival resources related to New York fashion week and creative communities of the United States accessible to the public. This ongoing collaborative effort, Archiving New York Fashion Week: FCRD x CFDA, brings the New York Fashion Week timeline into the present.
The @fcrd_fit includes 5,827 events,1,475 individual designers/brands and 973 new designers, brands, and organizations listed in the CFDA Fashion Calendar from 2015 to the first half of 2025. Users of the FCRD can now browse, map,and graph the listings for NYFW shows from 2015-2025 to learn about the impact of fashion at home as well as worldwide. This makes it possible to now search fashion shows and events from 1941 to 2025 totaling over 200,000 listings in the FCRD. Visit fashioncalendar.fitnyc.edu 🔗 in bio

#digitalhumanities #fashionhistory #CFDA #FashionCalendarResearchDatabase by @fcrd_fit

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Welcome to the Fashion Calendar Research Database (FCRD) a digitization and digital humanities project that makes The Ruth Finley Collection searchable, graphable and mappable Co-Principal investigators: Natalie Nudell @natalien__ & Karen Trivette @karentrivette • Digital Lead and Developer Joseph Anderson • @fcrd_fit @ahmp_fit @fitspecialcollections @fitnyclibrary @fitnyc @clirnews by @fcrd_fit

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It’s Paris Fashion Week 🇫🇷, the final stop on the international fashion week circuit. The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute-Couture Parisienne and later the Fédération de la Haute-Couture et de la Mode, the governing bodies for the French fashion industry, listed Haute Couture, Prêt-a-Porter and menswear Paris fashion weeks in Fashion Calendar since its inception with full schedules for all of the brands that showed.

Use the @fcrd_fit to learn more about French fashion and Paris Fashion Week.

Slide 1: @videofashionofficial clip from fall/winter 1984 Paris Fashion Week
Slide 2: Paris prêt-a-porter shows listed in Fashion Calendar, March 5, 1984
Slide 3: Paris Haute-Couture listings, Fashion Calendar, January 15, 1975

#paris #fashion #fashionweek #fashioncalendar #database taken in Paris, France by @fcrd_fit

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To celebrate the restoration and re-release of Douglas Keeve’s @douglaskeeve legendary documentary “Unzipped” starring Isaac Mizrahi @imisaacmizrahi we are looking at some of Mizrahi’s early listings in Fashion Calendar and events related to the film’s original release.

Mizrahi first listed his Fall 1988 collection in the Fashion Calendar. The following year he was honored at the 1989 @cfda awards and was included in DuPont’s “The XXI Century : Fashioning the Future,” panel discussion about new fibers such as Lycra.

Since the late 1980s, Mizrahi appeared over 175 times in Fashion Calendar, including the Fall 1994 runway show featured in Unzipped. Later that year, the September 1994 issue listed the first private screening hosted by Bergdorf Goodman and Elle magazine at the 57th Street Playhouse.
Both Mizrahi and Keeve received a special honor for the film at the CFDA awards in February 1996.

To learn more check out the @fcrd_fit

Slide 1: Isaac Mizrahi and Naomi Campbell in a still from Unzipped
Slide 2: March 28, 1988, p. 12
Slide 3: Mizrahi and Liza Minelli at the 1989 CFDA awards
Slide 4-7: January 9, 1989, p.1; graphs from @fcrd_fit ; November 27, 1989, p.2 ; map of events
Slide 8: photo of Mizrahi closing his Fall 1994 show
Slide 9: March 4, 1994, p.11
Slide 10: Kate Moss backstage April 1994 NYFW
Slide 11: September 1994, p.3
Slide 12: image of Mizrahi, Keeve and Cindy Crawford at the 1995 Hollywood premiere
Slide 13: February 1996, p.6
#fashionhistory #newyorkfashion #isaacmizrahi #unzipped #fashionfilm by @fcrd_fit

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To celebrate the @museumatfit ‘s new exhibition “Doll Dressing” curated by @colleen_hill_fashion we are looking at fashion shows and events related to dolls and doll fashion in Fashion Calendar.

Since 1941, over 106 events related to doll displays and doll fashion have been listed, ranging from the famous “Theatre de la Mode” in 1946; the display of doll collections at many museums including the Museum of Natural History; an @amfar benefit doll auction hosted by Demi Moore in 1996, the launch of many designer Barbie’s; and the @barbie @mattel NYFW fashion show at the tents at Bryant Park in February 2009.

Visit the @fcrd_fit to discover more about dolls in American fashion and cultural history. Make sure to see “Doll Dressing” at @museumatfit open until January 3rd, and check out the accompanying catalogue published by @rizzolibooks
#fashionhistory #dollcollector #dollfashion #museumatfit #digitalhumanities by @fcrd_fit

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To commemorate the passing of Bob Mackie @bobmackie (March 24, 1939 - September 14, 2026) we are celebrating the legendary fashion and costume designer’s legacy. Mackie is listed in Fashion Calendar over 296 times from the earliest listing in November 1970 to the most recent event listed in January 2019.

Visit the @fcrd_fit to learn more about Bob Mackie’s fashion shows and events over the decades.
Slides 1-4: images of F/W 2001 & 2002 images courtesy of firstVIEW
Slides 5-8: images courtesy of WWD.
Slides 9-11 : listings and data visualization from @fcrd_fit
#fashionhistory #bobmackie #fashion #fashionshow #costumedesign by @fcrd_fit

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To commemorate the 25 years since the catastrophic September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in downtown New York City, we are looking back at the NYFW that was cut short and the fashion community’s response during the aftermath. The September 3rd, 2001 issue of Fashion Calendar includes the NYFW grid for the Spring/Summer 2002 collections. The first show on 9/11 was @lizlangeofficial who was showing the first ever maternity-wear collection at NYFW. Once the first tower was hit the rest of the day was cancelled, and as the impact on the city became clearer, so was the rest of NYFW. Much of the resources that were allocated for Bryant Park were donated to the rescue services: water bottles, tents, and empty spaces around the city were needed for emergency and rescue services.

The following week, designers and brands began a very somber showing of the spring/summer collections. Many of the larger brands shared their spaces with the emerging designers who were no longer able to show in rented venues. The fashion industry led with care towards the community and the city. Many designers sent models down the runway with black armbands or wearing American flags.
#fashionhistory #nyfw #newyorkcity #fashionweek #digitalhumanities

To learn more visit fashioncalendar.fitnyc.edu @fcrd_fit
Slide 1: Alek Wek walking for @oscardelarenta on 9/17/2001, image courtesy of @firstviewphoto
Slide 2: NYFW grid from September 3, 2001 @fcrd_fit
Slide 3: Liz Lange S/S 2002 show at Bryant Park @firstviewphoto
Slide 4: The tent at Bryant Park, photo by Bill Cunningham
Slide 5-8: September 3, 2001 issue of Fashion Calendar taken in New York, New York by @fcrd_fit

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Today marks the beginning of NYFW and the start of the global fashion month circuit for the Spring/Summer 2027 fashion season. For decades, Eleanor Lambert, who organized the original Press Week and helped establish the @cfda hosted a luncheon for local and international press, and the fashion community to kickoff each season. The Council of Fashion Designers of America has continued that tradition by hosting @cfda NYFW kickoff events, which today signals that the market week is in full swing.

Check out @fcrd_fit to learn more about NYFW and all the events organized during fashion week. Slide 1-2: image from the CFDA NYFW kickoff event hosted at Gracie Mansion in September 2022. Slide 3: September 29,1997 issue of Fashion Calendar. Slide 4: image from the CFDA kickoff event in September 2025 at Rockefeller Plaza.
#nyfw #cfda #fashioncalendar #newyorkfashionweek #fashionhistory taken in New York, New York by @fcrd_fit

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From his eponymous label, to his work with Geoffrey Beene, WilliWear, Kim Jones and Marc Jacobs, Andre Walker @and_re_walker has contributed to American fashion for decades. Walker’s impact was recognized last year when he was awarded the 2025 Isabel Toledo Board of Director’s Tribute from @cfda . It’s only fitting that his first listing in the October 10, 1988 issue of Fashion Calendar was on the same page as Toledo’s show, which was to take place earlier in the day on November 4, 1988.
Learn more about the history of American fashion with the @fcrd_fit #nyfashion #fashioncalendarresearchdatabase #andrewalker #cfdaawards #americanfashion
Image 1: Walker at the 2025 CFDA Awards (image courtesy of BFA), Image 2-3: Fashion Calendar October 10,1988, image 4: paper magazine with Beene by Walker (image courtesy of Kim Hastreiter) Image 5-7: Andre Walker S/S 2001 runway show (courtesy of FirstVIEW), image 8: Andre Walker F/W 2001 runway show (courtesy of FirstVIEW) taken in New York, New York by @fcrd_fit

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A June 2, 1941 issue of the Fashion Calendar included a listing for a free three-week “Warner Brothers Corset Course,” open to 25 applicants. Recommended for saleswomen as well as those unemployed, and seeking to prepare themselves for corset-selling, the course promised both technical and professional training. Participants were offered a tour of corset production within a factory, instruction in every stage of operations, and guidance on how to fit a corset to “every type of figure.” This program also included a lecture on female anatomy delivered by a doctor, which frames the practice of corsetry selling and wearing within quasi-medical authority. Notably, the listing claims that the previous year’s course, “brought employment to all who took it.” This positions the course as a direct pathway to economic stability for women.

In the early 20th-century, women’s labor in fashion retail as well as garment production expanded alongside the growth of ready-to-wear industries. This offered new, if still constrained, forms of economic participation. Programs such as this one reflect how the specialized knowledge of undergarment construction and the female body became a marketable skill.

Listings such as this Warner Brothers Corset Course, offer a glimpse into how fashion and the bodies within it have been shaped over time. Explore the Fashion Calendar Research Database (@fcrd_fit), to discover more moments such as this one, where industry listings reveal stories of women’s labor.

#NewYorkCityhistory #fashionhistory #FCRD #FashionCalendarResearchDatabase #Lingeriehistory

Slide 1: Excerpt from Stayform Product Catalogue, The Underpinnings Museum, Slide 2: Listing for “Warner Brothers Corset Course” from the Fashion Calendar c. 1941, Slide 3: Warner Bros Coraline Corsets Booklet c.1880s, The Underpinnings Museum, Slide 4: Cover of June 2, 1941 issue of the Fashion Calendar, Slide 5: Keeping The Youthful Fit Corsetry Editorial Magazine Excerpt c.1940s, The Underpinnings Museum by @fcrd_fit

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