This panel brought together experts from the fashion industry, academia, and the art world to discuss the ways in which the historic and continuous cross-pollination between art and fashion enriches and expands our appreciation of the products of all. Reception followed.

Moderator

Stella Bugbee
Editorial Director, The Cut, New York Magazine’s fashion and lifestyle site

Speakers

Kathy Battista
Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Global Futures in Art, Design and Media, Winchester School of Art University of Southampton

Amy Fine Collins
Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair

Thierry-Maxime Loriot
Independent Curator; Curator of “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” (2011–2014)

Lucy Sykes
Fashion Director and Author

Public programs are supported by Joyce Berger Cowin, The Coby Foundation, Ltd., public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State
Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Image: Photo by Gavin Ashworth.