Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour at FIT

  The Museum at FIT (the Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York, regarded as one of the most important museums in the world, hosts Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour, an exhibition exploring the changeable meaning of the colour pink over the last three centuries.   In its two sections (one … Read more

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