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From What If to What's Next: 12th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference
No full textEach year, the Sustainability Council organizes and hosts a business and design conference on the campus of FIT. The purpose of the event is to inform, involve, and inspire the entire FIT community about sustainability and how to incorporate sustainability as a model into all aspects of what we do.The featured talks of 2018 included keynote speaker Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs; "There Are No Environmental Problems: Psychology and Sustainability" by Dr. Daniel Benkendorf, Associate Professor of Psychology at FIT; "Innovation Stations" interactive displays by FIT students who will demonstrate sustainability projects that have been featured at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), BioDesign Challenge, etc.; "Biomimicry: Tapping into 3.8 Billion Years of Design Success" by Mark Dorfman, BioMimicry 3.8; and a closing keynote by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Fashion and Physique Symposium:Dr. Joanne Entwistle “New Models of Diversity”
No full textDr. Joanne Entwistle presenting “New Models of Diversity” 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.Dr. Joanne Entwistle is a reader in culture, media and creative industries at King’s College, London. She is author of "The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory.
Fashion Culture: The Sari Series: An Anthology of Drape
No full textOn September 28, Malika Verma Kashyap, founder of the digital publication Border&Fall, and textile designer Sanjay Garg came together for a lively discussion on the diversity, versatility, and various perceptions of India’s incredible garment, the sari. The presentation included a series of short independent films on the sari, as well as a selection of regional “how-to drape” videos.The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is the only museum dedicated exclusively to the art of fashion in New York City
FIT Talks: David Wolfe interview
No full textSUMMARY: Phyllis Dillon interviews David Wolfe, trend forecaster and Creative Director of the Doneger Group for 27 years.BIOGRAPHY: David Wolfe has worked in fashion industry for over 50 years, and is one of the industry’s most influential trend forecasters. Born in 1941 in Ohio, he took a strong interest in fashion illustration as a young boy. In his first job at Carlisle’s Department Stores, a small family-owned chain in Ohio, Wolfe was given free reign to take on multiple roles, including visual merchandise director, and teen fashion coordinator. He also wrote advertising copy and created fashion illustrations for the advertising department, and worked on their bridle fashion shows. Wolfe there met and married his wife Sheila, who helped foster his career as a fashion illustrator. During a visit to London in the late 1960s, Wolfe landed an illustration job at the prestigious fashion store, Fortnum & Mason. He then worked steadily as a freelance fashion illustrator for the next 20 years, for publications including the London Sunday Times, Womenswear Daily, and Galeries Lafayette. He also began working with Lee Rudd's I.M. International fashion forecasting business, which provided reports for department stores, textile companies, color companies, and designers. After a couple of years working with the forecasting company, IM International, in 1981, Wolfe started his own company, The Fashion Service, which created and sold trend information to designers, and advised merchandisers on what they should buy. In 1990, he joined the New York-based Doneger Group, from which he retired from his position as Creative Director in 2018.DISCUSSED: In this interview, Wolfe discusses pivotal aspects of his career, the significance of fashion trend forecasting, and his impressions of current fashion trends. He talks about the differences between American and European fashion cultures in the 1960s and 1970s, and discusses the significance of the prominence of pop culture in the current era, and how high fashion serves as art in place of functional design. "Fashion as art is more creative, more liberated, more outrageous, more beautiful [than it's ever been]. But it isn’t rippling down into the real world....there are, like, two separate industries going on." Wolfe also talks about how trend forecasting used to "introduce ideas, or pull together concepts and influences," where today, trend forecasting is "analyzing what's going to sell.
FIT Oral History: John Pomerantz (Part 2)
No full textDATE INTERVIEWED: circa 1980sSUMMARY: Mildred Finger interviews John Pomerantz of Leslie Fay, Inc.BIOGRAPHY: "John J. Pomerantz, president of JJP Advisory, LLC, is former chairman and chief executive officer of Leslie Fay Company, Inc., a manufacturer of women's fashions. Pomerantz retired in 2000 after more than four decades with the company. Pomerantz joined Leslie Fay in 1955, became president in 1971 and chairman and CEO in 1980. At the 2002 American Image Awards, the fashion retailing world honored him for nearly three decades at the helm of one of the country's oldest dressmakers. Pomerantz is a trustee emeritus of FIT, and was a director of its foundation from 1976 to 2010, serving more than ten years as chairman. In 1984, Pomerantz and his wife, Laura, donated 5 million development campaign. In recognition, FIT named its Art and Design Center in honor of his father, Fred P. Pomerantz, founder of Leslie Fay. Pomerantz is a founder and supporter of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and serves on its board of overseers. He supports the arts and is involved in community service, including the Boy Scouts, where he was past chairman of the Greater New York Council. He sits on the executive board of City Meals-on-Wheels. Other board memberships include UJA Federation of New York, Fashion Delivers, and Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation. Pomerantz graduated from Admiral Farragut Naval Academy in 1951, and earned his BA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The Pomerantz family includes Johns wife Laura, daughters Andrea Pomerantz Lustig and her husband Mathew, Susie Davis and her husband Kevin, and Marnie Pomerantz MacLean and her husband, Neil. He has five grandchildren, Anna, Michael and James Lustig, and Chelsea and Zachary Davis."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
Love Your Library: Laurence King Publishing: Karolyn Kiisel
No full textKing for a Day: Laurence King Publishing Day at FIT. Lectures, book signings, draping demosKarolyn Kiisel provides draping demos from her book Draping: The Complete Cours
2018 Future of Fashion
No full textFIT’s graduating BFA class in Fashion Design presents a professional runway show every spring. Each year, industry critics lend their expertise to our graduating students during their final semester as they prepare for the fashion show. These designers work with students as mentors, visiting classrooms throughout the semester to critique student work, and selecting the most exceptional garments for special citation. Fashion professionals decide which garments are outstanding enough to make it to the runway. These judges select the best looks in each of the specializations: intimate apparel, special occasion, knitwear, children’s wear, and sportswear
Ballerina Symposium: Rosemary Harden "Enter the Ballerina: Margot Fonteyn and Fashion, 1930s–1960s"
No full textBallerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse was The Museum at FIT’s 23rd academic symposium. The one-day event explored the ways in which twentieth-century ballerinas and their glamorous, romantic costumes profoundly inspired modern fashion. #BallerinaExhibitionRosemary Harden is manager of the Fashion Museum, Bath, England, and is the author of Fashion Museum: Treasures
Faces and Places in Fashion: Anthony Casalena
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.Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO of Squarespace, in conversation with Dalia Strum (FMM '05). Anthony Casalena is the Founder and CEO of Squarespace, which he started from his dorm room in 2003. During the company's early years,Anthony acted as the sole engineer, designer, and support representative for the entire Squarespace platform, allowing for it to be a stable business from the outset. In addition to his main responsibilities in running the company and setting overall product strategy, he remains actively involved in the engineering, design, and product teams within the organization.Presentation moderated by Dalia Strum
Treasures of Fashion: the aesthetic sense of Valerie Steele
No full textDr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, guest curates a new exhibition at the Kobe Fashion Museum, Treasures of Fashion ― the aesthetic sense of Valerie Steele. For this exhibition, Steele selected approximately 150 items from the collection of the Kobe Fashion Museum, including rococo-style Western dresses dating from the 18th century to modern times, as well as fashion photographs, to shine a spotlight on their collection from a new perspective