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Fashion Culture: Roxanne Lowit in conversation with Valerie Steele
No full textFashion photographer Roxanne Lowit has been known since the 1970s for her images of celebrities and the scene backstage at fashion shows. Her work has appeared in fashion periodicals such as Vogue, and she has a forthcoming book about Christian Dior. Roxanne Lowit was in conversation with Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT on Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Commencement 2016: Ivy Ross
No full textSpeaker and Honorary Degree Recipient, Doctor of Humane Letters, Ivy Ross, addresses the graduates at FIT's Commencement 2016. Ivy Ross is a jewelry designer whose work is in museum collections, and she is vice president of Google and head of Project Aura, Glass and Beyond, where she leads a multidisciplinary team developing wearable technology
ARTSpeak: Jeff Way
No full textOn October 28, 2013, ARTSpeak visited the New York City studio of artist and FIT Professor Jeff Way. Part of ARTSpeak's 2013-2014 series, "Illuminating Process," featuring studio visits, lectures, and panels
Collaboration in Fashion
No full textFashion industry leaders Charlotte Cowles, senior features editor of Harper’s Bazaar; Becca McCharen, founder of the futuristic fashion line Chromat; and stylist Christian Stroble discuss the many ways that collaboration inspires and enriches their work.This event was organized in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies and the exhibition The Women of Harper’s Bazaar, 1936-1958.Moderated by Kyle Farmer; introduction by Lana Bittman
Sustainability in Fashion with Brother Vellies founder, Aurora James
No full textDesigner Aurora James will discuss sustainability in design and the future of fashion with host Simone Cipriani. This event is part of the Hand of Fashion, a series of discussions intended to widen the understanding of sustainability in fashion design, enable and encourage sustainable thinking, and help establish a new normal in the fashion industry.The series is hosted by Simone Cipriani, founder and manager of the Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a flagship program of the International Trade Centre, which is a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. The EFI harnesses the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty by connecting artisans in the developing world to fashion’s supply chain
Fashion Culture: Romaine Brooks: A Life
No full textOn Thursday April 7, 2016, art historian Cassandra Langer introduced her lively biography of expatriate American painter Romaine Brooks (1874-1970). Langer discussed Brooks and her paintings in the context of fashion, patronage, feminism, and sexual fluidity
Poetry Reading: Ocean Vuong
No full textPoet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 1988 and immigrated to the United States in 1990, is the author of the best-selling book Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the 2016 Whiting Award. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, he has received honors from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinkers, alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Warsan Shire, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, and VICE.This event is sponsored by Department of English and Communication Studies and the School of Liberal Arts
ARTSpeak: Alfredo Gisholt
No full textARTSpeak lecture series presents artist Alfredo Gisholt. Gisholt attended Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City and received his MFA from Boston University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Dedalus Foundation Fellowship. Gisholt has had recent solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation in New York City, the University of Maine Museum of Art, Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston, and the Recinto Project Room in Mexico City. He currently teaches at Brandeis University, and lives and works in Boston.ARTSpeak 2016-2017 is an interdisciplinary program presented by the departments of Fine Arts and History of Art that consists of lectures and a panel discussion on the theme of The Presence of Art History in the Mind of the Artist.ARTSpeak has been made possible in part through funding by the FIT Student-Faculty Corporation, the School of Art and Design, and the School of Liberal Arts
Commencement 2017: Jeffrey Buchman
No full textReflection: Professor Jeffrey Buchman, President, FIT Faculty Senat
Commencement 2017: Gabriella Manduca
No full textValedictory Address: Gabriella Manduca, International Trade and Marketin