Banu Ogan and Emma McClendon in Conversation | Dance & Fashion

Emma McClendon and Banu Ogan at The Museum at FIT's 14th annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, held on October 23 & 24, 2014. The Dance & Fashion symposium explored how dance costume has inspired fashion, and how fashion designers have increasingly been creating dance costumes. Emma McClendon is the assistant curator of costume at The Museum at FIT, where she has co-curated the exhibitions "Fashion and Technology" and "Trend-ology." Banu Ogan danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for more than seven years. Currently, she teaches at the Merce Cunningham Studio and at Juilliard. https://exhibitions.fitnyc.edu/dance-and-fashion/symposium/