Poiret Coat - Conservation Treatment | MFIT

Nicole Bloomfield, conservation technologist at The Museum at FIT, explains how the museum acquired a 1917 coat by fashion designer Paul Poiret and describes the conservation treatment she performed so that it could go on display in the exhibition Faking It: Originals, Copies, and Counterfeits, on view December 2, 2014 – April 25, 2015 http://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/faking-it.php Video created by the FIT Technology Development Team and produced by Tamsen Young, Digital Media Manager, MFIT | Music: Maurice Ravel's Adagio from Piano Concerto in G performed by Markus Staab, Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/