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Elaine Stone interview, 1995 March 1
No full textElaine Stone, a professor in the Fashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM) at the time of this interview, also served as the coordinator of the Small Business Center and the director of the Center for Global Enterprise. She talks about her first encounters with FIT students while working at various department stores during the holiday season and her invitation to speak at the school. She was immediately taken with FIT and began teaching in 1975 after meeting Newt Godnick of the FBM department while they were buying for major department stores. She discusses the challenges of teaching and describes the close-knit nature of faculty/student relationships at FIT. She worked closely with the Taiwan Textile Federation while at FIT; and her deep international experience led her to help found FIT-affiliated programs such as the National Institute for Fashion Technology in India, Caricom in the Caribbean, Polimoda in Italy, and Shenkar College in Israel. She discusses the founding of the Small Business Center thanks to a faculty retreat put on by Marvin Feldman. With the support of Jeannette Jarnow, the FBM did a survey of alumni and found that 85% owned their own businesses, meaning there was a large gap in the department’s curriculum. What began with a class in business management became a huge cross-department program with federal grants supporting initiatives such as the Women Business Owner’s Association and the Export Assistance Service Extension. Stone describes how the center has also allowed for students to attain international internship experience and discusses linkages with national economic development associations. Stone penned three books during her time at FIT: Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Buying, and Exporting and Importing Fashion. She says a little more about her professional background and then finishes the interview with a ringing endorsement of FIT and her hopes for its future
Faces and Places in Fashion: George Simonton
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.FIT alumnus and current associate professor George Simonton describes his career in designing high end fashions for career women, and his recent ventures with QVC and piloting a reality TV program "I Don't Have Anything to Wear." He ends his presentation with three FIT students modeling some of his recent designs
Faces and Places in Fashion: Art Ortenberg
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. Ortenberg describes the final years of his life with wife and business partner Liz Claiborne and reflects on how the fashion industry is changing and what impact this will have on people entering that world. He uses the history of the Liz Claiborne company as a way of describing the industry
Faces and Places in Fashion: Mark Mendelson
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. Mendelson describes his career in fashion merchandising, including positions at Macy's, Ann Taylor, Nine West Apparel, Eli Tahari, Jones Apparel, and his current position as president of Ellen Tracy, where he is in charge of 12 brands. The focus of the Ellen Tracy market is the 60 million women who are 40+ sophisticated, stylish and who are looking for attractive and comfortable clothes and eye-catching accessories
Faces and Places in Fashion: Audrey Smaltz
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.Audrey Smaltz speaks about her company, The Ground Crew, which is responsible for coordinating the backstage activities at fashion shows. She shows a video press kit that includes interviews of designers describing their appreciation of Audrey Smaltz and her company, and then describes how she started her company and offers career advice
Faces and Places in Fashion: Audrey Smaltz
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.Audrey Smaltz speaks about her company, The Ground Crew, which is responsible for coordinating the backstage activities at fashion shows. After showing a brief video about Ground Crew, Ms. Smaltz also offers tips for interviewing, presentation, and career advice.NOTE: there are audio issues during the first 3 minutes of the talk
Faces and Places in Fashion: Amedeo Scognamiglio
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.Amedeo Scognamiglio describes his role in the sixth generation of the Scognamiglio family's cameo making business. He developed a friendship with Sarah Jessica Parker because of her use of cameos in her television series Sex in the City, and used this to expand the market for his families jewelry industry in the United States
Faces and Places in Fashion: Patrick Kelly
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.Fashion designer Patrick Kelly lectures and presents his fashions as part of the CL 111 course
Faces and Places in Fashion: Pier Guerci
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.Pier Guerci CEO of the Italian textile fabric manufacturer Loro Piana and Patrick Adent, Sr. VP for Wholesale Sales show a 15-minute video that describes the history of the company, emphasizing its efforts to use only top quality lightweight, soft and pliant cashmere fibers, and illustrates all the steps in producing a luxury product in a vertically integrated enterprise
Faces and Places in Fashion: David Wolfe, pt. 2
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, presents a slide show that shows how celebrities and visitors to St. Tropez have shaped and influenced fashion trends over the years