Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour

Grit to glamour can best be defined as having passion, perseverance and focus on achieving a goal. It is the ability to grind at a project with the end result being one of glamour and esteem.

Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, a new exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art is a dedicated fashion, exhibited featuring more than 100 iconic American designers and labels. The exhibition explores and celebrates the nation’s spirit of innovation and the diversity of the country’s fashion heritage. It spotlights, the untold stories of underrecognized and underrepresented designers, important contemporary movements shaping the industry, and American fashion’s resonance in global trends and visual culture.

The exhibit present American fashion as a powerful emblem of global visual culture, amplified by movies, television, red carpets, and social media. From dresses worn by first ladies to art-inspired garments to iconic fashion moments that defined a generation, Fashioning America conveys uniquely American expressions of innovation, highlights the compelling stories of both designers and wearers that center on opportunity and self-invention, and amplifies the voices of those who are often left out of dominant fashion narratives.