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FIT Talks: Fern Mallis Interview
No full textPhyllis Dillon speaks with Fern Mallis about her career in the fashion industry. Mallis discusses her time as a young woman working in the coveted Guest Editorship position at Madamoiselle magazine, and her time living at the Barbazon Hotel for Women. She goes on to discuss her time working for the magazine as an employee in her years after college, and the other jobs she took after leaving Madamoiselle. She then describes how she learned about the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), what led up to her being hired by them, and her development of New York Fashion Week. She discusses how vastly the industry has changed due to the rise of the prevalence and influence of technology, and issues with sustainability and how detrimental the fashion industry is to the environment. She finally speaks about her time on the FIT Board.Fern Mallis helped transform the fashion business in the 1990s from a loosely connected group of small and large companies, into a business sector with cultural clout, influence, and a distinctive identity, when she ran and professionalized the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) as it showcased in centralized fashion shows in tents in Bryant Park. As Senior Vice President at IMG Fashion along with running NY Fashion Week, she also led new fashion weeks in cities all over the world, elevating fashion into popular culture internationally. She has participated in all parts of the industry, and has a very unique vantage point to observe and understand its recent history. Aside from her interesting and pivotal jobs, she has pioneered fashion education and entertainment for Sirius Radio and at the 92nd Street Y. Based on her wide program interviews, her book Fashion Minds, Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis, is a profound record of the career achievements of 19 fashion leaders. She serves on advisory boards that are pioneering fundraising for AIDS and breast cancer, and receive many awards. She's on the Board of Directors of FIT, received two lifetime achievement awards from Pratt Institute and FIT, and was inducted into the Business of Fashion Hall of Fame in 2014
Fashion Culture: Lauren Fay in conversation with Ronald van der Kemp
No full textJoin couture designer Ronald van der Kemp and The New Fashion Initiative founder Lauren B. Fay who will discuss van der Kemp's career and his devotion to craftsmanship, upcycling and reducing waste in fashion. Ronald van der Kemp is a Dutch fashion designer and founder of demi-couture fashion house RVDK, his namesake label, which shows at Paris Couture week and uses exclusively upcycled fabric.Lauren Fay has spent her career committed to improving sustainability, transparency and accountability in the fashion industry. The New Fashion Initiative (TNFI) was born out of a need to create a more collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to fashion and brings together brands, nonprofits and academics to educate future industry leaders
Fashion Culture: Alexander McQueen: Unseen
No full textAlexander McQueen’s spectacular shows were full of extraordinary moments and people. Author and photographer Robert Fairer will discuss his stunning, high-energy photographs of McQueen’s runway shows. Fairer, who was Vogue's backstage fashion photographer for more than a decade, was an integral part of the whirl of activity behind the scenes. In "Alexander McQueen: Unseen," Fairer's images, which capture both the glamour and the grit, represent a new genre of fashion photography and are a treasure trove of inspiration. Robert Fairer joins writer and consultant John Matheson (of Instagram's @McQueen_Vault) in a talk moderated by MFIT’s senior curator of education Tanya Melendez-Escalante
Hafizah Geter: Un-American
No full textPoet, essayist, and literary agent Hafizah Geter reads from her work and answers questions in a video visit for the FIT community. She also met with students in two one-hour class visits.Hafizah Geter is a Nigerian American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria. Called “one of 2020’s buzziest poets” by Marie Claire, Hafizah is the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American from Wesleyan University Press (September 2020), longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and which received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly. Roxane Gay calls the poems “incisive” and “devastating.” Claudia Rankine calls Un-American a “gorgeous debut” that “troubles and reshapes notions of belonging.”Hafizah’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeney’s Indelible in the Hippocampus, among others. She is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, a VONA/Voices nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf 2021 Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a 2018 92Y Women in Power Fellow, and the recipient of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She’s previously worked at Cave Canem, Poets House, and PEN America, and served on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. She received her BA in English and economics from Clemson University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago.Hafizah’s full-length nonfiction debut, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, about the intersection of queerness, anti-blackness, and living inside the bullseye of a country, is forthcoming from Random House in fall 2022. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and serves on the planning committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival and where she is working on a novel about the collision of coming to America, the American dream, and climate change.Co-sponsored by the English and Communication Studies Department and the FIT Diversity Council
Art/Works: State of Research of Business and Labor History for Art and Design Curriculum
No full textTeaching Business and Labor History to Art and Design Students presents the Art/Works: Teaching Labor and Capitalism in Art and Design symposium.State of Research of Business and Labor History for Art and Design Curriculum: Joshua Freeman, Graduate Center, CUNY;Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University; Yunah Lee, The University of Brighton; Chair: Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of TechnologyArtists and designers aspire to be creative geniuses, and they often are. But they are also bosses, employees, members of professional associations, and citizens of nations that encourage and restrain their creative work in various ways. Art and design students are generally not taught the intricacies of those other roles, how to navigate them, or how to change them. This virtual symposium brings together professionals and educators to explore pedagogical practices in business and labor history for Art and Design students and curricula. In a series of panels and networking sessions, professionals, educators, and students discuss how art and design industries and careers are shaped by labor practices, unions and collectives, workplace equity (or lack thereof), internships, and the history of racial discrimination, cultural appropriation, and other topics in art and design.The Teaching Business and Labor History to Art and Design project is directed by Daniel Levinson Wilk, Ph.D., and Kyunghee Pyun, Ph.D.Teaching Business and Labor History to Art and Design Students has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Connections Implementation Grants
Faces and Places in Fashion: Joseph Barrato
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.Joseph Barrato describes his early years as a partner with Ralph Lauren and assignments at Brooks Brothers, Bergdorf's, Garfinkel's, and Brioni, a return to Ralph Lauren and his career as educator. He emphasizes the role that his education at FIT played in developing his passion for the fashion industry
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
FIT 4th Semester Student Fashion Show: 1984 Fall
No full textFIT student fashion show featuring clothing designed by 4th semester F.I.T. students. Design Studio: critic George Samen, critic award winner Louise Tardy. Sportswear: critic Rebecca Moses; critic award winner: Alisa Caron. Current Scene: critic Lester Hayatt, critic award winner Juila Goodman. Sportswear design: critic Catherine Hipp, critic award winner William Leonard. Fifth Semester design Studio: critic Michaele Vollbracht, critic award winner Junggi Suh
Sustainable Business and Design Conference: 2022 Pathways to Impact: Opening Remarks
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.Opening remarks from Dr. Joyce F. Brown, President, FIT; Dr. Karen Pearson, Chair, Sustainability Council; Caroline Levine, Secretary of Sustainability, Student Government Association, FIT; and Karisma Hishikawa, FIT Student, Land Acknowledgment
Faces and Places in Fashion: Vittorio Missoni
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.Vittorio Missoni, son of the founders of the famous knitwear company, speaks about the history of his family's business and its distinctiveness for not only designing but making fashions