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FIT Menswear Fashion Show: 1994 Spring
No full textFIT student fashion show featuring menswear designs.Produced and directed by John Karl. Choreographed and directed by Martin Shows Inc. Mens Fashion Club president: Tony Sol. Menswear Club president: Frank Torre. Student designers: Floyd Chambers, Henrick Reid, Nicholas Barratt, Peter Negron, Shun Cheung, Zivkovic Branislav, Kevin Mishler, Dave Best, Jenny Sue Abarno, Dean Sirois, Charles Villacara, George Le Bar, Christopher Totman, Agnieszka Kostro, Aaron Duncan, Yukari Endo
Sustainable Business and Design Conference: 2022 Pathways to Impact: The Promise of Bio-Based Fibers
No full textFIT’s 16th annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Pathways to Impact centers on four core themes that highlight the intersectionality of sustainable practices. Over the course of two intensive days, attendees will be immersed in keynotes, talks, and panel discussions providing pathways to Social Justice x Social Responsibility, Environment x Materials, Consumption x Waste, and Design x Business. The speakers are trailblazers in numerous facets of sustainability and emphasize the FIT community’s commitment to best practices in all its operations—including student projects, faculty and staff initiatives, and campus facilities.The Promise of Bio-Based FibersPanel: Aleksandra Gosiewski, Co-Founder & COO, AlgiKnit, Chui-Lian Lee, CEO and Cofounder, Werewool. Moderator: Dr. Evelyn Rynkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Ecology, FIT.As the cofounder and COO of AlgiKnit, Aleksandra Gosiewski’s interests and goals have been heavily influenced by sustainability. With a mission to understand the Earth’s natural resources, she explores the importance of utilizing raw materials in the creation of textiles and garments. Having graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Fashion Design and a minor in economics, she harnesses the creativity of design thinking with steadfast attention to detail in business operations and practicality. Aleksandra’s core ethos is derived from a childhood spent outdoors and an understanding of the importance of a symbiotic relationship with nature.Chui-Lian Lee is the CEO and cofounder of Werewool, a biotechnology company developing biodegradable textile fibers with DNA-programmed color and performance properties. Chui holds a BS in Textile Development and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her diverse experience at Global Brands Group, Victor Textiles, Vartest Laboratories, Atlas Textiles, National Science Foundation ICorp Program, and MIT The Engine: Blueprint Program informs her understanding of the textile supply chain and biofabrication’s potential to achieve fashion industry circularity and climate goals. Chui-Lian’s awards include the 2022 H&M Conservation X Labs Microfiber Innovation Challenge Prize and the 2020 Foundation Global Change Award.Dr. Evelyn Rynkiewicz Assistant Professor, Ecology, Fashion Institute of Technology. A disease ecologist, Evie’s research investigates co-infection in wild mice, focusing on how parasites and pathogens interact with each other and with the host immune system. She teaches classes in ecology and biology, with her overall goals being to increase science literacy among non-science majors and to give students the confidence to bring ideas of the scientific process and understanding of the natural world into how they think about their careers. She collaborates with scientists, designers, and artists to develop innovative tools, labs, and activities in the classroom and is the FIT faculty advisor for the Biodesign Challenge program, advising students in developing innovative projects combining science and design to solve current and future problems in sustainability
Sustainable Business and Design Conference: 2022 Pathways to Impact: Empowerment Through Education and Collaboration
No full textFIT’s 16th annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Pathways to Impact centers on four core themes that highlight the intersectionality of sustainable practices. Over the course of two intensive days, attendees will be immersed in keynotes, talks, and panel discussions providing pathways to Social Justice x Social Responsibility, Environment x Materials, Consumption x Waste, and Design x Business. The speakers are trailblazers in numerous facets of sustainability and emphasize the FIT community’s commitment to best practices in all its operations—including student projects, faculty and staff initiatives, and campus facilities.Pathway Speaker: Patrick Duffy, founder, Global Fashion Exchange; Moderator: Dr. Karen Pearson, Professor, Science and MathGlobal Fashion Exchange founder Patrick Duffy is an expert at developing networks and activating ideas, guiding creative teams that partner globally with institutions like the V&A in London and New York City’s Bryant Park. He has produced events and created marketing and PR campaigns for some of the world’s most recognized brands in art, fashion, and tech. His work in the fashion industry catalyzed industry titans to create positive action working alongside the UN to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Patrick has managed global partnerships for Common Objective, an intelligent business network for the fashion industry, and launched “Mr. Duffy,” a 100 percent circular and sustainably focused clothing collection, with partner Fashion 4 Freedom in Vietnam.Karen Pearson, PhD, is a professor of Science and Math at FIT and is the co-chair of the college’s Sustainability Council. She has won a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, has been noted as one of the 100 Most Inspiring Women in STEM, and is a recipient of FIT’s President’s Award for Excellence. Pearson has done extensive work in the development of interdisciplinary STEAM curricula and programming at FIT and is the recipient of multiple research and program awards, including those from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Her research outside of the classroom is focused on the design, synthesis, and application of new materials that have potential in low-energy devices, such as thin-film transistors (TFTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
Sustainable Business and Design Conference: 2022 Pathways to Impact:ReFashion Week NYC
No full textFIT’s 16th annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Pathways to Impact centers on four core themes that highlight the intersectionality of sustainable practices. Over the course of two intensive days, attendees will be immersed in keynotes, talks, and panel discussions providing pathways to Social Justice x Social Responsibility, Environment x Materials, Consumption x Waste, and Design x Business. The speakers are trailblazers in numerous facets of sustainability and emphasize the FIT community’s commitment to best practices in all its operations—including student projects, faculty and staff initiatives, and campus facilities.ReFashion Week NYC talk with Julie Raskin, Executive Director, Sanitation Foundation, NYC Department of Sanitation, and Alissa Westervelt, Senior Manager, donateNYC, Bureau of Recycling & Sustainability, NYC Department of Sanitation.Julie Raskin joined the Sanitation Foundation in 2019. Prior to that, she worked at American Express in partnership marketing and at the New York City Parks Department on sustainability projects and on a public-private partnership to install free public Wi-Fi in parks citywide. She holds a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University, received an MBA from New York University, and is a recipient of the Waste360 40 Under 40 Award.Alissa Westervelt is the senior manager of donateNYC, a New York City Department of Sanitation program that supports donations, reuse, and NYC’s Zero Waste Goals. In this role Alissa spearheads ReFashion Week NYC, an annual event celebrating low waste and sustainable fashion. With an MS in Environmental Policy from The New School and a career in the food industry, Alissa joined the Department of Sanitation in 2018 to help launch the donateNYC Food Portal. She has raised the profile of donateNYC through public events, outreach campaigns, environmental impact reporting, and disaster response. Alissa specializes in textile waste, food systems, and circularity
Fashion Culture: Dapper Dan in Conversation with Valerie Steele
No full textWith his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs
Ballerina Symposium: Laura Jacobs "Crown Jewels: Reflections on the Ballerina"
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. #BallerinaExhibitionLaura Jacobs is editor of the Arts Intel Report for the online weekly newsletter Air Mail. A fashion critic for The Wall Street Journal and the dance critic for The New Criterion, Jacobs’s most recent book is Celestial Bodies: How to Look at the Ballet
FIT Authors: Brenda Cowan
No full textProfessor Brenda Cowan, Exhibition and Experience Design, discusses her book, Museum Objects, Health and Healing
Diversity Comic Con: Mika Song Q & A
No full textA live discussion with children’s writer and illustrator, Mika Song. She currently has several books through Random House including Donut Feed the Squirrels and Cancer Hates Kisses. Moderated by Ed Murr (FIT Illustration Professor)As part of its Civility Week, FIT hosted the Diversity Comic Con for a third year, and in 2020 it was completely online. The comic con features panel discussions, speed networking, drawing contest, cosplay challenge, a comic anthology an a virtual marketplace/exhibition.While the medium of comic books has been around for almost a century, the presence of minorities—as both subjects and creators—has been sorely lacking. But times are changing, and the participation and visibility of multicultural art and stories are more crucial than ever.More and more, the lines between print and screen media are blurring and merging as stories that were once the domain of comic books become the movies and television shows of today. Comic books are the beginning of visual storytelling.Diversity Comic Con gives students an opportunity to be exposed to careers that are truly multidisciplinary while providing a venue to showcase their work to publishers, professionals, and the general public. This event gives them an invaluable experience and will widen their horizons.This event is fully sponsored by a grant from the President’s Diversity Council
Symposium: Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion: Rose Motifs in the Collection of The Museum at FIT
No full textColleen Hill and Elizabeth Way present "Rose Motifs in the Collection of The Museum at FIT" for The Museum at FIT's 24th academic symposium Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion on April 30, 2021. This virtual event explores how the beauty, mythology, and symbolism of the rose have long influenced fashionable dress. #RoseInFashionColleen Hill is curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at FIT (MFIT). She holds an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from FIT and is currently a PhD student at London College of Fashion. Since joining MFIT in 2006, Colleen has curated or co-curated more than a dozen exhibitions. Her upcoming shows include "Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion" and "Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the 90s." She has authored or co-authored seven books on fashion and contributed to numerous other publications.Elizabeth Way is Assistant Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She co-curated the exhibitions, "Global Fashion Capitals" (2015) and "Black Fashion Designers" (2016), and curated "Fabric In Fashion" (2018). Upcoming exhibitions include "Head to Toe" and "Food and Fashion." Way’s museum publications include: “Intersections of Movement and Style: African American Dance and Fashion in the Twentieth Century,” in Dance and Fashion (2013); and “Looking Back at the Future: Space Suits and Space Age Fashion” in "Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme" (2017), and she is co-editor of the "Food and Fashion" book (2022)
2015 Black Student Union fashion show
No full textFIT's Black Student Union presents "24/7 Fashion," a runway show of student work. The evening was hosted by Coco and Breezy and featured work by student designers Nyleah Ford, Lance, Tiana Clarke, Tiana Guerrero, Caitlyn Riede, Brittany Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Juju, Erica Appleby.The Black Student Union (BSU) is a student organization dedicated to exploring and celebrating black culture