Exploring the cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis and the development of body image, sexuality, and personal identity, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis (running September 10, 2025 through January 4, 2026 at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology) displays almost 100 items of designer clothing, organized both chronologically and thematically. According to MFIT Director and Chief Curator Valerie Steele, the exhibit "provides important clues about the power and allure of fashion, as well as the ambivalence and hostility that fashion also attracts." Dresses by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Gianni and Donatella Versace, and others demonstrate psychoanalytic ideas about the object of desire and sexual fetishism as well as the movement towards nonbinary and gender-fluid dress.
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