Museum At FIT Latest New York Exhibition

Whether it's a fake sold on Canal Street in New York. Designer brand Handbags, or fast fashion retailers like H&M and Forever 21, openly copy the fashion styles displayed in fashion week. In today's society, we can see many examples of imitation. These high imitation goods and their original versions are now displayed in the Museum at FIT Museum. The exhibition explores the original design clothing in the fashion industry from various angles, plagiarism and Counterfeit goods The relationship between them.

The exhibition, which is open to the public in the afternoon, shows about 100 objects, many of which have never been exhibited before and over 150 years. Museum at FIT, assistant director of clothing and textile industry Ariele Elia, tells us that this exhibition is inspired by her curiosity about the legality of fast fashion counterfeit products and the development of counterfeiting industry.

"I wonder why there are so many direct ones. Show ground How fast is the fashion copied from the plagiarism and how fast they make things? I wonder why they are allowed, "she told us. "The scale of the counterfeiting industry is really big now, but it is still selling on the streets or selling on the Internet for the time being. I really want to go deep into this matter and trace back to when it started.

When you enter the exhibition space, the first thing you see is a woolen Chanel suit, next to the imitation of this garment. At first glance, these two pieces look the same, but after further examination, the difference becomes obvious. Let us know that this is not the case. The exhibition continued as time went on, followed by an evening dress from Charles Frederick Worth. Its brand was considered to be the first "designer label" in history and became the forger's goal.

In order to have a broad view of clothing -- between originality, fakes and everything else, the FIT exhibition also shows the measures taken by designers or brands to prevent fraud. For example, Madeleine Vionnet keeps her fingerprints on the label of each dress to prove that everything is from her hand. Other designers, like Coco Chanel, think that copying is a free publicity for her design. She even sells plate making plans with fabric samples and designs she designs.

The exhibition opened from December 2nd to April 25, 2015.