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Faces and Places in Fashion: Mark Drew
No full textFashion and fine art photographer Mark Drew was the guest speaker at Faces and Places in Fashion. "Faces and Places in Fashion" provides an opportunity to connect with the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting. "Faces & Places in Fashion" is a lecture series, class, and forum for prominent fashion professionals to discuss their trade, experience, and perspective on the business.Mark Drew was born in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Northern San Fernando Valley. Although a Native of Los Angeles, Mark Drew grew up in Plainfield (birthplace of Irving Penn), New Jersey. At an early age Mark felt the need to use photography as a means of escape. Perhaps the radical tradition and spontaneity in Mark's photography was shaped by the characteristics of those early years in history.Well known for his sumptuous black and white pictures, Mark Drew emphasizes provocation and absolute seduction that are unveiled in each photographic vision with modesty and generosity. Mostly photographing the deeper human connection with elemental objects that surround us, Mark Drew is an artist who's is not afraid to remind us that there is an unbroken link between us and the visual world that surrounds us as well as the mental world we live within ourselves
Faces and Places in Fashion: Sylvia Heisel
No full textSylvia Heisel, fashion designer and expert on 3D-printed clothing, was the guest speaker at Faces and Places in Fashion. "Faces and Places in Fashion" provides an opportunity to connect with the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting. "Faces & Places in Fashion" is a lecture series, class, and forum for prominent fashion professionals to discuss their trade, experience, and perspective on the business.Sylvia Heisel is a fashion designer and creative director working with new materials, manufacturing and physical computing for fashion and wearables. She is an expert on 3D printing, functional fashion, design for smart wearables and new materials manufacturing applications for fashion.Currently developing a work-flow and manufacturing system for 3D printed apparel, Sylvia has been named one of the "25 Forward Thinkers Defining the Future of Fashion”, "Top 100 Women in Wearable and Consumer Tech" and "12 Amazing People You Need To Know In New York Fashion Tech". Sylvia is a frequent speaker on Fashion Tech and has led workshops in 3D Printing for Fashion at schools around the world.Heisel is a design lab for 3D printed clothing, using new technology-based materials and manufacturing methods to make sustainable clothes, accessories, and wearables
Methods of Basic Sewing, v. 14. Sleeve Finishes
No full text“Methods of Basic Sewing” was produced by FIT in 1982 and is still used today. It’s an FIT classic!Instructor, Nurie Relis; Technical supervision, Hedda Gold; fashion illustration, Linda Tain; television supervision, Lee White; produced and directed by Jeffrey Buchman
Methods of Basic Sewing, v. 18. Permanent Handstitiching
No full text“Methods of Basic Sewing” was produced by FIT in 1982 and is still used today. It’s an FIT classic!Instructor, Nurie Relis; Technical supervision, Hedda Gold; fashion illustration, Linda Tain; television supervision, Lee White; produced and directed by Jeffrey Buchman
Faces and Places in Fashion: Elizabeth “Liz” Leifer, Chief Creative Officer, Play Out Underwear
No full textElizabeth "Liz" Leifer, Chief Creative Officer of Play Out Underwear, spoke at Faces and Places in Fashion. FIT's "Faces and Places in Fashion" provides an opportunity to connect with the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting. "Faces & Places in Fashion" is a lecture series, class, and forum for prominent fashion professionals to discuss their trade, experience, and perspective on the business.Says Leifer, "I originally come from a purely creative background, having started as a painter and scenic artist, moving into film production and then on to styling and creative direction. As I’ve moved forward in my career, I have been very diligent in learning all the business and money sides of all my creative endeavors. I feel very lucky that I am able to utilize the culmination of all my previous experience as I continue to learn and grow with the industry as a brand consultant and the CCO of Play Out Underwear. Though I have worked in corporate settings for the last several years, I maintain my entrepreneurial spirit and believe in leading by example, rolling my sleeves up, and supporting those who support me, to achieve their individual goals as well as the larger team and company goals. Because I was an independent contractor and team leader for so long, I have been able to help studios and creative teams grow and it has sort of become my specialty. When I started at Net-A-Porter, we had a total of 43 people in the studio, when I left we were at 135, which too a lot of work and coordination for our management team, but we loved every minute of it. When I arrived at Intermix a bit under 2 years ago, they were farming out their seasonal campaigns, creating 14-26 editorial images per month and shooting 4 to 5 additional seasonal reports/marketing collaborations. Now we shoot 3 days of editorial content (60-70 assets) for the homepage and daily emails, 4-6 marketing initiatives including our A.L.C x Intermix capsule collection last August featuring Chrissy Teigan, which I produced and art directed, shot by Emma Summerton. 3-4 editorial laydown shoots, 2-4 social media shoots and have taken all our Look Book and seasonal campaign production and creative, in house. The bottom line is that I love telling stories that will engage and excite customers, ultimately compelling them to identify and derive joy from aligning with a brand. The world is hard. Life can be hard. Everyone feels better when they love what they have on.
Fashion Unraveled Colloquium: Dr. Jeffrey Horsley “Perfect Bodies for Imperfect Dress”
No full textInspired by the MFIT exhibition Fashion Unraveled and organized by MFIT and the Fashion Research Network, this one-day colloquium explored the concepts of memory, wear, and imperfection in fashion. Speakers focused on imperfect garments and the significance of dressing as a habitual, intimate, and ephemeral act.Jeff Horsley originally trained in theatre design and subsequently held the positions of curator, Manchester Art Gallery, and head of exhibitions, Manchester Museum. Jeff is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Fashion Curation and Course Leader, MA Fashion Curation, both at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Jeff’s research interests include the history of fashion exhibitions and innovative approaches to the presentation of fashion in museums
Pink Symposium: Dr. A. Cassandra Albinson “Pink in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Pink, its twentieth academic symposium. This symposium explored the significance of the color pink in fashion, art, and culture. Pink provokes exceptionally strong feelings of both attraction and repulsion, yet it is increasingly being regarded as cool and androgynous, powerful and political. Topics included the significance of pink clothing in western and non-western cultures (including India, Africa, Mexico, and Japan), the role of pink in eighteenth-century portraiture, associations of pink with politics, gender, and sexuality, and the use of pink in cinema.Dr. A. Cassandra Albinson is the Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of European Art at the Harvard Art Museums. She is currently working on an exhibition on the color pink in eighteenth-century painting and decorative arts. Past exhibitions include Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Jeannette Jarnow interview, 1984 November 1
No full textThis interview is with Jeannette Jarnow, the first chairperson of the Buying and Merchandising Department at FIT. Jarnow describes her professional ascent at the department store, Abraham & Straus, up to 1944; when she took a brief break due to her first pregnancy. Jarnow describes the path that led her to seek out a teaching post at FIT. Instead of offering Jarnow a professorial post, Rosalind Snyder invited her to found the Buying and Merchandising Department in 1956. Jarnow describes the challenges of starting a department including the extent of publicity efforts for the department as well as for FIT itself, still struggling to make its name known in the Industry. As there were little to no instructional materials available, Jarnow assembled several books such as, “The Mathematics of Retail Merchandising,” and “Inside the Fashion Business,” that would come to be used by other educational institutions as well as by professional training programs. Jarnow briefly theorizes why FIT was not as impacted by student unrest in the 1960s before launching into a depiction of the industry seminars her department held as a service to the Industry. She continues on to discuss the evolution of merchandising with the rise of chain stores, and the ways in which FIT stays on top of industry trends. Finally Jarnow lists a host of successful alumni such as Sidney Biddle Barrow, the “Mayflower Madam,” who became famous for founding the most expensive call-girl operation in New York City
Emanuel Weintraub interview, 1985 January 24
No full textEmanuel Weintraub, an alumnus of FIT, discusses his upbringing and family life in the Depression-era Bronx. He initially chose FIT because it was free, and he received a scholarship. Weintraub briefly discusses his course work there in conjunction with work done at New York University. He graduated in 1947 with a degree in Industrial Management as part of the second graduating class of FIT. He discusses his professional start as a plant engineer at the Lily of France Corset Company and early interest in consulting work. After briefly describing his enlistment during the Korean War, Weintraub delves into the founding of his own consulting firm, Emanuel Weintraub Associates, Inc. The firm consults in three areas: industrial engineering and manufacturing, organization and organization structure, and marketing and market research. Weintraub describes his ongoing relationship with FIT presidents such as Marvin Feldman. Then, he discusses his company’s work in-depth; how they assess companies’ organizational functionality and various national studies they have done to advance the field. Finally, Weintraub discusses the growth of off-shore production and how he thinks it will negatively affect marketing and other adjacent industries in the United States
Fashion Culture: Charles James: The Couture Secrets of Shape
No full textOn Wednesday, March 20, 2019, Dorothea Mink, professor of fashion design at the University of Arts, Bremen, and Homer Layne presented their fascinating book on Charles James. Layne — James’s assistant for almost a decade — and Mink analyze the great designer’s remarkable innovations, revealing what made his designs so special, and suggest how designers today can apply James’s principles to their own work