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Runway27 Fashion Show: Twisted
No full textRunway27, a student club comprised of students from all different majors across the college, will hold its annual runway show; this year’s theme is Twisted. The event represents the work of four different committees—merchandising, production, public relations, and event planning—producing a professional-level runway show featuring work by FIT fashion designers combined with retail clothing and accessories
Library Professional Development Day: Rebecca Louie
No full textThe FIT Library's 2018 Professional Development Day was "Go Green: Eco City Living" and featured guest speakers on a variety of subjects relating to sustainability.Rebecca Louie is the author of Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living. She is a journalist. beekeeper, and a certified NYC Master Composter
Denim Fashion Farming Japan Symposium
No full textThe School of Graduate Studies’ Fashion Design MFA program holds a symposium on local and global denim production. Students will present research from their Fashion Farming course in Japan.Projects include: Boro: Necessity to Luxury by Amy Sperber; Heritage, Identity, and Economy by Yuton Wu; Aizome and Natural Indigo Dyes by Jacob Hooker; Shiburi Techniques: Japan Blue by Eliza Fisher; Synthetic Indigo for Mass Production by Jingqi Yang; Global Advances in Denim Systems by Junkai Huang; The "Machine" by Yunjui Chung; The "Hand" by Moon Jung Chang; Selvedge: The Pinnacle of Denim by Yi Ting Lee; Denim: Classic vs Modern by Yuchen Han; Denim as the Artist’s "Canvas" by John Lenahan; Automation + Preservation by Anastasia Edwards
Fashion Unraveled Colloquium: Dr. Carolyn Dowdell “Gertrude Savile’s Green Damask”
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.Carolyn Dowdell is a dress historian with an MA and a PhD, both specializing in 18th-century clothing construction with an emphasis on object-based research. Her PhD specifically focused on reuse and alteration of such clothing. To date, she has examined approximately 500 extant 18th-century garments in UK and North American collections. Carolyn contributed to the 2016 DAR Museum exhibition An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution with an essay and by drafting scaled patterns of displayed garments for the exhibition catalog. She is also interested in reproduction as a research methodology, most recently displaying an alteration project at this year’s CSA symposium in Williamsburg
Pink Symposium: Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis “Panavision in Pink: Deceptively Demure”
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. Deborah Nadoolman Landis is an Academy Award-nominated costume designer, historian, and founding director and chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She is the author of many books, including Hollywood Costume (Abrams), the catalogue of her groundbreaking 2012 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Susanne Bartsch & Dr. Valerie Steele in Conversation
No full textSusanne Bartsch and Dr. Valerie Steele (director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT) in conversation at The Museum at FIT's 15th fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, held October 22 & 23, 2015.Suzanne Bartsch has been prominent in New York nightlife since the 1980s. Her penchant for extreme fashion made her name the equivalent of a couture label for party people around the world. Dr. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT. She has organized more than twenty exhibitions, including "Gothic: Dark Glamour" and "Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch".The fifteenth annual fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, explores the creative links between Bartsch's 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene
Commencement 2016: Jane Rosenthal
No full textRemarks from Honorary Degree Recipient, Doctor of Fine Arts, Jane Rosenthal, at FIT's Commencement 2016. Jane Rosenthal is a film producer and President of Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Enterprises
FIT Talks: Interview with Bud Konheim
No full textGuest: Bud Konheim, CEO, Nicole Miller; Interviewer: Phyllis Dillon
Methods of Basic Sewing, v. 1. Attaching Buttons, Hooks, Eyes & Snaps
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. 5. Easing, Gathering & Shirring
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