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Fashion and Physique Symposium: Reina Lewis “Modest Body Politics: Faith, Fashion, and Ethnicity”
No full textReina Lewis presents “Modest Body Politics: Faith, Fashion, and Ethnicity” at The Museum at FIT's 19th fashion symposium, Fashion and Physique, held on Friday, February 23, 2018.The one-day symposium featured lectures and panels on topics such as the emergence of the plus-size fashion industry in the early twentieth century, the impact of popular culture on how we assess the female body, and fashion accessibility for the disabled in the technological age.Reina Lewis is professor of cultural studies at London College of Fashion, UAL. Her books include "Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures" and "Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith.
FIT Oral History: Fred Pomerantz
No full textDATE INTERVIEWED: October 29 and November 5, 1981SUMMARY: Mildred Finger interviews Fred Pomerantz, founder of Leslie Fay, Inc. shortly before his retirement from the apparel industry.BIOGRAPHY: Fred Pomerantz, born in New York City in 1903, started working before the age of 11 for a firm manufacturing coats and suits. Before the age of 20 he had gone into business with a brother. Around the age of 31, he retired temporarily from the apparel business and went to California to engage in various business enterprises, which were largely unsuccessful. He returned to New York and the apparel industry, and around 1938 he launched Leslie Fay, Inc., naming the business after his daughter. In 1972, John Pomerantz became the President of the parent company and Fred Pomerantz became the Chairman. Fred Pomerantz retired in 1982, and passed away in 1986. Mr. Pomerantz served on the Board of Directors of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries from 1967-78. After his death, the Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center building was named for him in recognition of a donation by his son, John J. Pomerantz, a former member of Fashion Institute of Technology’s Board of Trustees and foundation.Leslie Fay was founded around 1938, incorporated in 1959, became a public company in 1967, and became "private" once again in 1982, at which time it was estimated to have achieved a volume of about $250,000,000. In 1993 the company experienced a severe accounting scandal, which forced it to declare bankruptcy. The company slowly recovered, however it never reached the same dominance as it previously had
Faces and Places in Fashion: Underfashion Club panel discussion
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Panel discussion includes top leaders from the world of intimate apparel, including graduates of FIT, and is moderated by FIT alumna Karen Bromley, Principal of The Bromley Group, a public relations and events agency that specializes in retail and apparel in New York City. Panel participants are members of Underfashion Club Inc., an intimate apparel industry organization. Victor Vega, Senior Vice President of Wacoal America introduces the Underfashion Club Inc., for which he serves as President.Moderator, Karen Bromley ; comments by Victor Vega ; panel participants, Alex Frumberg, Amy Bittner, Maureen Stabnau, Seth Morris, Sonia Winther, Tina Wilson, Victoria Vangriff, Barbara Lipton. Victor Vega, Tina Wilson, Sonia Winther, Seth Morris
Liz Claiborne: designer roundtable
No full textFashion designer Liz Claiborne discusses the progression of her career, the establishment of her brand, and the state of the fashion world today. Following her talk, she answers questions from the audience.Introduced by Dana Buchman
Faces and Places in Fashion: Curt Holtz
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Mr. Holtz, president of Vanity Fair Brands describes his 17 years in the apparel industry and contrasts marketing strategies for intimate apparel with other apparel retail categories. A brief video tells the history of his company and tracks how it grew through internal growth and acquisitions
Faces and Places in Fashion: David Wolfe
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.David Wolfe, Creative Director of Doneger Design Direction, a division of the Doneger Group describes how forecasting trends for Spring 2010 is harder than ever before because of the economic climate. A slide-show presentation attributes the difficult retail environment partly to the current fear economy. For 2010 he sees a rebirth in American values, patriotism reflected in gingham, nautical, bi-color stripes, polka-dots, brighter and two-tone colors and classic lines. He projects the end of celebrity-culture, the obsession with designers, the end of glitz and conspicuous consumption, the redefinition of luxury and effort to live the simple life, endurance of brand integrity. He argues that the industry needs a faster creation/delivery cycle and will get on the green/sustainability band wagon
Faces and Places in Fashion: Martha Olson
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Martha Olson, president of the Warnaco Intimate Apparel Division describes the Warnaco's organization, products, merchandising, distribution, and packaging, emphasizing how creativity can make lasting changes in fashions. She ends her presentation with profiles of some of her colleagues
Designer Spotlight: Elsa Schiaparelli
No full textThe Museum at FIT presents its Designer Spotlight series where MFIT curators explore objects in our permanent collection that highlight a specific designer's work and their contributions to fashion. MFIT curator Melissa Marra-Alvarez narrates this short video about the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973)
Faces and Places in Fashion: Michael and Nicholas Kaplan
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Michael and Nicholas Kaplan describe the launching of their large-size women's fashion retailing venture. Their firm, Fashion to Figure, offers over 75 brands of sizes 14-26. The brothers are grandchildren of the founders of the Lane Bryant stores, which also offered fashions to 12+ shoppers, and they contrast the earlier retailing concern with the narrower focus and broader plus-size offerings of Fashion to Figure
Black History Month Opening Program and Keynote Address: Piper Anderson
No full textPiper Anderson, founder and president of Create Forward, will be the keynote speaker for the opening of Black History Month. The national theme for Black History Month is The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.An entrepreneur, a skilled storyteller, and an effective coach, and trainer, Piper Anderson is the founder and President of Create Forward, a social impact firm that produces experiences to advance equity and justice. Her career over the last 20 years has traversed the arts, youth development, community organizing, education and the healing arts providing her with an interdisciplinary toolbox of cultural strategies to advance social change.In 2016, Anderson was awarded a TED Residency to develop an innovative storytelling project called Mass Story Lab. Mass Story Lab has traveled to more than thirteen U.S cities creating immersive storytelling laboratories that center the experiences of people impacted by incarceration, then channeling these personal stories into instruments of justice. As part of her residency, Anderson gave a TED Talk, “Can Stories Create Justice?” Her talk challenges us to throw out conventional notions of punishment, and to imagine a justice system that builds and restores humanity.Piper Anderson is a professor at NYU’s Gallatin School and a founding member of the advisory board and faculty of NYU’s Prison Education Program. She has guest lectured at universities across the country including Harvard Law, Columbia University, Georgetown, and Occidental College. She is a New School Writing Democracy Fellow, a Culture Push Fellow for Utopian Practice, and a former Civic Hall Organizer in Residence.This event is part of the FIT Diversity Council’s Black History Month activitie