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  1. Virtual Summer Art Classes at the Glassell Junior School

    Jul 18, 2020 - The world of fashion design awaits in the “Fun with Fashion” class for ages 8 to 10. Older artists, ages 13 to 18, can learn about portraiture, digital animation, printmaking, and more.

  2. Catwalk Stunners Now on View! See Fashion Fusion’s Winning Designs

    May 25, 2017 - This May, the Museum teamed up with Houston Community College’s award-winning fashion program for the third annual Fashion Fusion event. A competition that culminates in a runway show at the MFAH, Fashion Fusion encourages design students to draw inspiration from an exhibition to create stunning, handmade garments, as well as jewelry and accessories.

  3. A Stain on an All-American Brand: How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Enslaved People

    About the SpeakerJonathan Michael Square, assistant professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design in New York City, considers histories of enslavement through the lens of fashion. has curated exhibitions including Slavery in the Hands of Harvard and Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery, and he is working on the book Negro Cloth: How Slavery Birthed the American Fashion

  4. High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter

    Winterhalter presents a selection of these canvases, complemented by select items of clothing by sought-after fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth and several of Worth's contemporaries. Although many of Winterhalter’s iconic portraits of European nobility predate the entry of couturier Worth (1825–1895) into the field of fashion, their client lists among elegant women of the European courts overlapped.

  5. Sunday Best | Celebrating “The Obama Portraits Tour”

    The MFAH invites everyone to celebrate at the Museum: celebrate families; celebrate communities; celebrate creativity, wellness, passion, and fashion. “Strut Your Sunday Best” fashion parade• 3:30 p.m. Performance by the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses and friends • 4:30 p.m. .• Decorate your own commemorative paper fan with artist Melissa Aytenfisu• Take selfies in front of floral backdrops from Bree Blooms• Design wearable art to adorn your Sunday Best with fashion faculty from Houston Community

  6. MFA Shop Trunk Show | Namai

    July 12–14, 2024The MFA Shop presents an exclusive trunk show with Namai, an independent, New York–based fashion brand founded by Bianca Kuttickattu in 2020.

  7. Habsburg Chic

    Aug 19, 2015 - The Habsburg Dynasty loved lavish and ostentatious fashion.  (9)   Known as a fashion icon and trendsetter, Empress Elisabeth radiated imperial luxury in this simple, black gown. The choice of fabric was deliberate: velvet symbolizes royalty.

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    years, presenters have included luminaries such as ballet star Lauren Anderson; musicians Bun B, Kam Franklin, and Robert Earl Keen; former first lady Barbara Bush; sports stars Cynthia Cooper, Larry Dierker, and Clyde Drexler; fashion Odyssey | Artist and Glassell School of Art director Joseph Havel Season 13 (2017–2018)September 25 | The Dinner Game | Houston Grand Opera artistic and music director Patrick SummersDecember 2 | Mahogany | Houston Chronicle fashion | Citizen Kane | The Baker Institute’s Edward DjerejianMay 6 | Orpheus | Houston Symphony’s Hans Graf Season 7 (2011–2012)October 2 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Gallerist Meredith LongOctober 24 | Bill Cunningham New York | Fashion

  9. Hats Off: Halston Hats from the Masterson Collection

    Hats Off: Halston Hats from the Masterson Collection highlights hats and hair accessories designed by influential American fashion designer Halston (1932–1990) for New York department store Bergdorf Goodman.

  10. Conversation | Indian Textiles: Bridging Arts and Craft

    Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz.  About the SpeakersSarah Fee is senior curator of global fashion and textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and curator of the recent exhibitions The Cloth that Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons and