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FIT Entrepreneurship Series: Douglas Hand and Monica Phromsavanh
No full textThe FIT Foundation welcomes Douglas Hand and Monica Phromsavanh of Equal Hands in a virtual conversation hosted by Fern Mallis.Founded by Monica Phromsavanh, Equal Hands is a certified B-corp pending, fashion-forward lifestyle brand and retailer that is ecologically sustainable and socially responsible.The FIT Entrepreneurship Series connects FIT’s luminary alumni and friends with the FIT community like never before. We have planned an exciting lineup of conversations that promise to create a forum where we share ideas, educate one another, and celebrate achievements
Symposium: Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion: Nick Knight in conversation with Amy de la Haye
No full textNick Knight and Amy de la Haye engage in a conversation about roses in fashion 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. #RoseInFashionNick Knight OBE is one of the world's most visionary, innovative and creative image makers. Working primarily in the realms of fashion and style, these award-winning images have been instrumental in challenging conventional notions of beauty and identity. In order to champion fashion film and develop a forum to explore experimental technologies, he launched what was to become the award-winning SHOWStudio website in 2000. He has developed his passion for posting iPhone photographs of “Roses from my Garden” on Instagram to create major unique artworks that explore AI.Amy de la Haye is Professor of Dress History & Curatorship and Joint Director of the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has worked as a curator, interpreting museum collections and archives for thirty years; from 1990 to 1991 she was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has published extensively on subjects including British fashion, curatorship and practices of collecting; the Women’s Land Army; subcultures; the Worth archive and is author of the V&A’s "Clara Button" books for children. Her next major project involves working, with Simon Costin, on a series of exhibitions on British folklore costume
Faces and Places in Fashion: Dimitra Williams
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.Dimitra Williams is a gradutate of FIT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design. At FIT she specialized in knitwear and has continued to work in knits throughout her career. With experience at Opening Ceremony, Kim Haller and Brooks Brothers, Dimitra is currently spending her days at Helmut Lang as an associate designer. In March 2020, Dimitra founded MIITRA. She created MIITRA as a way to utilize the themes, individuals and experiences that fed her personal creativity andartistry. MIITRA is her way of amplifying the positive representation of the Black community in the luxury design space. To quote Miitra’s brand guide: “At MIITRA, our purpose is simple: to empower your spirit through thoughtfully designed pieces and to promote strength, confidence and self-love with every product we offer. We create investment pieces at an attainable price point with timeless appeal because everyone deserves to wear their values with pride. Our aesthetic is clean, modern and minimal so our statement messages of positivity and hope always remain the focus.
FIT Soul Fashion Show: 1989
No full textThe FIT Soul Club presents the 1989 Soul Fashion Show: "The Personal Touch"Awards presented by FIT President Marvin Feldman, Soul Club Advisor Clara Branch, and Soul Club Student President Elizabeth Powell. Awards for excellence in design were presented to Adrienne Jones (sportswear), Gerri Lewis (swimwear), Karen Curinton Rippy (loungewear), Richard Q (creative design). Featuring work by student designers Gerri Lewis, Venezuelo Scott, Devon McDowell, Brenda Evans-Carter, Clarence Walter, Lisa Aronas, Orell Woods, Carl Currie, Richard Q (Richard Quinones), Adrienne Jones, Jon Webb, Shyvonne Coleman, Sharon Parker, Constance Strother.Producer/Director: Clara Branch. Choreographers: Clara Branch, Leland Michael. Commentator: Leland Michael.NOTE: Portions of this video may be muted due to copyright restrictions
2014 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 VH1's Jarvis Derrell and featured live music by Shaliek.The Black Student Union (BSU) is a student organization dedicated to exploring and celebrating black culture
Talking Trade at FIT: The ESG Challenge
No full textGlobal brands have had to consistently navigate the protocols, cultures, and shifting legal sands upon which these international trade and marketing realities have precariously, albeit successfully, functioned. ESG (environmental, social, and governance) has thrust upon us demanding and disruptive protocols, insisting on displacing traditional ways of thinking, and their time-tested norms. As change is challenging and uncertainty often follows, one inevitability is the need to solve our problems by developing new modes of thinking, opening up to previously unimaginable business strategies, and designing new, yet untested, business models. To manage these outcomes we need to drill down into the bedrock issues that all global brands must manage.The forum will offer insights and strategies on these four bedrock issues, regulatory challenges to global trade from ESG and Intellectual Property standards, reconciling ESG with business growth and revenue objectives, avoiding greenwashing in global ESG advertising and marketing, and protecting brand integrity by leading ESG with company values.Panelists: Sydney Price, Founder and CEO, The Knew Purpose (TKP); Pamela Church, Partner and Head of IP, Baker & McKenzie LLP; Gian Mario Borney, Worldwise Strategy Executive, Advisor, and Educator of Fashion and Luxury Management; Strategic Business Development, and Strategic Alliances. Moderator: Bill D’Arienzo, Founder, WDA Brand Strategies Managemen
FIT Authors Talks: Meira Goldberg on Sonidos Negros
No full textProfessor K. Meira Goldberg discusses her book Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco.How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself.The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife’s edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure’s subversive teetering undermines Spain’s symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco’s Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization
Designing Adaptive Fashion
No full textAdaptive fashion takes front row in a virtual panel discussion with three innovative professionals focusing on adaptive design.Speakers are Izzy Camilleri, Keith Kirkland, and Stephanie Thomas.Moderated by Carli Spina, Head of Research and Instructional Services, Gladys Marcus Library
Faces and Places in Fashion: Malcolm Crews
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.Malcolm Crews, design director of men’s graphics at Tommy Hilfiger, will be the guest at this week’s Faces and Places in Fashion
Soul Club Oral History Project: Leonard Davis
No full textThe Soul Club of FIT was organized in 1968 by community member Clara Branch after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clara Branch was a staff and faculty member of the Fashion Design Department who served as the club’s advisor until her retirement in 1991. The purpose of the club was to share and celebrate Black heritage and culture, and to assist students with books, materials, and mentorship. The Soul Club of FIT is best remembered for its annual standing-room only event, The Soul Fashion Show, which was held at FIT from 1971 through the early 1990s. Clara Branch directed these shows which featured the work of young Black designers and models, and were supported by the larger community of the New York City fashion industry. In 1992, Rhonda Burrell-Stubbs took over as director upon Clara Branch’s retirement.The Soul Club Oral History Project is an initiative of the FIT Library, inspired by the Soul Club fashion shows’ exuberance, positivity, dynamism, and joy. For this oral history project, FIT alumni and faculty members are interviewed about their participation and experience in the Soul Club. The goal of this project is to explore FIT’s rich and diverse history and uplift, amplify, and publicly share the stories of Black fashion students and faculty members as told by the community members themselves.Fashion Designer, Fashion Event Producer, and Black Americana collector, Leonard Davis, earned his Associate degree in applied science at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1973.Davis then continued his education at the world-famous L'École de la Chambre Syndicale De La Couture Parisienne, Paris, France where he earned his “Couture Design'' certificate in 1975.After working as an apprentice for Jean-Louis Sherrer in Paris, Davis returned to New York and began working on Seventh Avenue as part of the design team at Willi Wear. Davis was the first African American designer to head a division for companies such as: Adrianna Papell, Chaus Inc. Tanzara, and Lemon Grass. For 12 years Davis designed private label products for QVC, The Home Shopping Network, Essence by Mail, and retail stores: Saks, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Macy’s, JCPenney, Sears, Ashley Stewart, and Walmart. Davis has also worked abroad as Design Director for several International fashion houses including Mihang International, (Korea) Sage Apparel, (India), Tanzara international, (India).In 1990 Leonard realized the necessity for an annual event to honor African Americans in the Fashion Industry.Through the collaboration of FIT’s Soul Club and FAX, Davis’s vision was realized and he produced several events which honored black fashion pioneers such as: Ophelia DeVore, Naomi Sims, Andre-Leon Talley, Iman, Bethann Hardison, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen De Lavallade, Wesley Tann, Helen Williams, Audrey Smaltz, Susan Taylor, and Stephan Burrows. These events were hosted by Diahann Carroll and Phylicia Rashad.Davis began collecting African American historical artifacts in 1985. Leonard has published two books entitled, Black Americana Price Guide. Davis has appeared in numerous magazine and newspaper articles, and The Davis Collection has been featured on TV shows: Antiques Road Show, Treasures In Your Home, and ABC News. Items from the Davis collection were featured in Spike Lee’s hit movie Bamboozled, and several items are on display at the newly built African American Museum in Washington, DC, The Civil Rights Museum, and The Norman Rockwell Museum.Taur Orange, interviewer, is the head of Educational Opportunity Programs at FIT