Tango Mania in 1913 with Dr. Mary E. Davis and Valeria Solomonoff | Dance & Fashion Symposium

Dr. Mary E. Davis and Valeria Solomonoff 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. Dr. Mary E. Davis is dean for the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion. Valeria Solomonoff is an award-winning choreographer and dancer known for her innovations in tango. She currently teaches at NYU and Hunter College. https://exhibitions.fitnyc.edu/dance-and-fashion/symposium/