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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Priya Elan

‘A space for celebration’: exhibition focuses on Asian-American fashion

Anna Sui is one of the designers featured in the FIT exhibition.
Anna Sui is one of the designers featured in the FIT exhibition. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Amid an upswing in anti-Asian hate crimes in America, a new exhibition at New York’s prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology will celebrate Asian American designers’ contribution to the fashion world.

Asian American in New York Fashion: Design, Labour and Innovation will run until 27 March and features the work of Shail Upadhya and Vivienne Tam. Designers Anna Sui and Zang Toi, meanwhile, feature in a sketch by artist Ruben Toledo.

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