Food and Fashion

Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression. With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art.

Melissa Marra-Alvarez is Curator of Education and Research at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA. She curated the exhibition Force of Nature (2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (2009). She has contributed to Fashion Underground (2015), Dance and Fashion (2013), Fashion Designers A-Z, The Collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (2013), Bloomsbury's Fashion Photography Archive and Oxford Art Online. Elizabeth Way is Curator of Costume and Accessories at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA. She curated the exhibition Fabric In Fashion (2018-19) and co-curated Global Fashion Capitals (2015) and Black Fashion Designers (2016-17). She is editor of Black Designers in American Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2021).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface by Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA Preface by Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies, New York University, USA Introduction: Fashioning Food - Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way Part 1: Food Meets Fashion: Contemporary and Historical Views 1. From Haute Cooking to Fast Food Chic: The Pairing of Food and Fashion - Melissa Marra-Alvarez 2. Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine - Elizabeth Way 3. Dressed to Dine: The Restaurant as Fashionable, Feminine Space - Elizabeth Way Part 2: Activism: Nature, Labor, and the body 4. Growing Alternatives: Food, Fashion, and the Natural World - Melissa Marra-Alvarez 5. We Feed You: Protest Fashion and the United Farm Workers Union - Michelle McVicker 6. Don't Eat That: Food, Fashion, Dieting, and Disorder - Emma McLendon Part 3: Cultural Representation 7. Wax Print Yams and Watermelon Hats: The African Diaspora in Food and Fashion - Elizabeth Way 8. The Cross-Cultural Transformations of Chinese Food and Fashion - Faith Cooper 9. I piaceri della tavola: Food, Fashion, and Italian identity - Melissa Marra-Alvarez 10. From Zen to Kitsch: Musings on Contemporary Japanese Food and Fashion - Patricia Mears 11. Without Maize There is No Mexico: Fashion & Corn - Tanya Melendez- Escalante Part 4: Art and Visual Culture 12. The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art's Enduring Intersects - Madeleine Luckel 13. Avocado Toast and Blonde Salad: Critical Perspectives on Fashion and Food on Instagram - Monica Titton Bibliography Index