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Designer Spotlight: Patrick Kelly
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 contributions to fashion.Born in Mississippi in 1954, Patrick Kelly moved to Paris in 1979, where he and his partner Björn Amelan founded his label in the mid-1980s. Explore Kelly’s glamorous, over-the-top, and fun fashion
Hue Live: Elise Doganieri
No full textHue is the official magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology, a State University of New York college of art and design, business and technology, and Liberal Arts. Join HUE Magazine's, Alexander Joseph, for a conversation with Emmy-winning Producer Elise Doganieri on creating The Amazing Race
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 fallout from the 2008/2009 economic crisis continues to effect fashion trends. A slide-show presentation shows colors and styles for Spring 2012 and Wolfe's commentary emphasized the need for designers to connect with consumers; the need for fashion to reflect consumers' interests and to return to real design. Wolfe predicts the end of trendiness and the end of movies influencing fashion. He says he can see the day when there will only be virtual fashion shows--that the planning and set-up of fashion runway events will become to expensive to be sustainable
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 he anticipates and tracks changing fashion trends. For 2009 he sees fashions shaped by shrinking budgets, an aging population and globalization
Faces and Places in Fashion: Tadashi Shoji
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.A video of Shoji's Fall 2007 runway show is introduced by one of his assistants, Grace Chen. Mr. Shoji then describes his career designign high-end fashion for celebrities and retailers like Sak's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom's as well as his own boutiques
FIT Talks: Interview of Roslyn Jaffe
No full textFIT Talks is the oral history program of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Professor Karen Trivette interviews Roslyn Jaffe, founder of the women's clothing retail company and store, Dressbarn, which was active from 1962 until 2019
Faces and Places in Fashion: B. Michael
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.After showing a video of his Summer 2006 line, fashion designer B. Michael describes his career and offers practical advice to aspiring designers.NOTE: A portion of this video may be muted due to copyright
UCE of FIT Presents: Now or Never: The Fight to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment with Carol Jenkins
No full textThe United College Employees of FIT presents this interview with Carol Jenkins, moderated by Elena Romero, a professor in the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department.Carol Jenkins is an advocate for human, civil and women’s rights, an award-winning author and Emmy-winning TV anchor and television journalist. A board member since its inception in 2014, she joined the leadership team of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality in December 2018. Jenkins is also the host of the multi-award winning show Black America, on CUNY TV
Faces and Places in Fashion: Jeriana San Juan
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.Jeriana San Juan is an Emmy and CDGA nominated costume designer with a career spanning Television, Film, Broadway musicals, Concert tours, and Dance. Variety’s “Artisans up next” report has listed Ms. San Juan as a rising costume design star and Vogue has named her a leading talent in Costume Design.Her credit highlights include the HALSTON Miniseries for Netflix where Ms. San Juan’s costume design is central to a story spanning 4 decades of the famous fashion designer’s life and career, starring Ewan McGregor.In Baz Luhrmann’s THE GET DOWN, Ms. San Juan created vibrant costumes illustrating a 1970’s New York from early hip hop style to the glamour of Disco. Ms. San Juan received praise for having interpreted the period fashion for the screen with a vivid freshness and was cited as having influenced collections from many fashion designers including Givenchy as a result.Other Career highlights include HBO’s THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, a six-part miniseries starring Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder and John Turturro about an alternate history of 1940's WWII America. USA’s hit anthology crime drama THE SINNER, starring Bill Pullman and Carrie Coon, and DAMNATION, a drama set in the 1930’s about the bloody industrialization of America’s hard working heartland.For the FX series SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL starring Denis Leary, Ms. San Juan created outrageous costumes for a 1980’s rock and roll band hoping to make a comeback.Ms. San Juan’s early career included the acclaimed NBC series SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Sn 32 -38) during the tenor of cast members Tina Fey, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, and Kristen Wiig, and assistant designing the Tony award winning, Legally Blonde, The Musical.Ms. San Juan’s work and commentary has been published in the New York Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Vanity Fair among others, and is a recipient of the National Accessories council’s 2017 ACE award as style influencer of the year.Learning dressmaking at an early age from her grandmother, Ms. San Juan cites her roots and upbringing as a first generation Cuban -American as a key inspiration in her life and career. As a young child she was trained in dressmaking by creating patterns out of newspaper and repurposing household textiles for materials. It was with this early introduction into design that taught Ms. San Juan that with ingenuity and style anything is possible
Designer Spotlight: Cristóbal Balenciaga
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 contributions to fashion.Born in Spain, Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) opened his couture house in Paris in 1937. One of fashion’s greatest innovators, he radically altered the fashionable silhouette with designs such as the sack dress. He retired in 1968, and in 1997, Nicolas Ghesquière was hired as creative director of Balenciaga. Balenciaga’s work is characterized by a strong emphasis on three-dimensional form