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Black Fashion Designers: Mimi Plange and Tracy Reese
No full textAndré Leon Talley in conversation with fashion designers Mimi Plange and Tracy Reese in conjunction with The Museum at FIT's exhibition "Black Fashion Designers" on view Dec 6, 2016 to May 16, 2017. Video by Noir Tribe Media
Badgley Mischka oral history
No full textJames Mischka of Badgley Mischka at the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC), 1995
Commencement 2017: Dr. Giacomo Oliva
No full textWelcome: Dr. Giacomo Oliva, Vice President for Academic Affair
Dance and Fashion Symposium: Anna Winestein "Russia's Icons of Dance"
No full textAnna Winestein at The Museum at FIT's 14th annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, held on October 23 & 24, 2014.The fourteenth annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, explored how dance costume has inspired fashion, and how fashion designers have increasingly been creating dance costumes.Anna Winestein is a historian of Russian art and theater and an independent curator. Executive director of the Ballet Russes Cultural Partnership in Boston, she previously was creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation
Dean's Forum: Charles Gorra - REBAG
No full textBaker School of Business and Technology Dean's Forum Featuring CEO and Founder of REBAG, Charles GorraPresented in collaboration with the Entrepreneuship DepartmentNovember 4, 201
Gabriela Hearst in Conversation with Valerie Steele
No full textUruguayan-born fashion designer Gabriela Hearst launched her eponymous label, in which products are made with care and detail, in fall 2015. For Hearst, tradition is more important than trend. There is a purpose to every piece she creates; she calls her works “honest luxury.” She is the winner of the 2016/2017 International Woolmark Prize for Womenswear and the 2020 CFDA American Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. She speaks with MFIT’s Director and Chief Curator Dr. Valerie Steele about these accomplishments and her recent appointment as Creative Director for Chloé
Globally Connected: Battling Stereotype and Stigma, A conversation on Cultural Appropriation
No full textWe must all be conscious of the world around us, the people, their stories, their culture and learn to understand them. Respectful, authentic and socially correct representation matters now, more than ever. This panel is a starting point for conversation around cultural appropriation in the arts, media, and beyond. Together, we can educate ourselves to not only consume, but also create in a way that respects the integrity and boundaries of a culture, without succumbing to the stereotypes and stigmas around them.This year's Globally Connected program is a series of 45-minute virtual discussions led by students, faculty, and alumni to advance global education at FIT in our new world with limited mobility. The major themes will be fashion, art, sustainability, racial equity, and life during the pandemic around the world.Siddhi Daga is a 5th year fashion design student specializing in Sportswear, with a double minor in art history and economics as well as being a Cultural Fellow at FIT.Sara Paci Picolo is an Italy/Swiss Art and Fashion Historian, Adjunct professor, and a study abroad program and Italian Universities Coordinator.Kyungshee Pyun is an Associate Professor at Fashion design Institute of Technology.Papa Oppong is a MFA Fashion Design major and a Cultural Fellow at FIT.Valerie See is currently a sophomore in Fashion Business Management at FIT, with a minor in Asian Studies
Globally Connected: Conversations for the Future: Mapping the Art World after the Pandemic
No full textAngelica Pomar, FIT Art History and Museum Professions senior, and Eva Mayhabal Davis, arts advocator and curator, will discuss the climate of the art world post-pandemic and what it means for Black, Indigeous, people of color, women, and queer individuals working in the arts. They will evaluate how art institutions can better represent these identities in both exhibitions and on the art careers front. Most importantly, they will look at how wider representation in the arts can be the catalyst for social equity and change.This year's Globally Connected program is a series of 45-minute virtual discussions led by students, faculty, and alumni to advance global education at FIT in our new world with limited mobility. The major themes will be fashion, art, sustainability, racial equity, and life during the pandemic around the world.Angelica Pomar is an Art History and Museum Professions senior at FIT. She identifies as Nuyorican and South American, and is passionate about social justice within the arts. Last Spring, Angelica studied abroad in Florence, Italy to further study art history and museum studies at the Lorenzo De' Medici Institute. Angelica is also an artist educator at the Museum of Arts and Design, where she helps facilitate and plan virtual public programming with the education department. Angelica has previously helped curate the exhibition Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center in Queens, New York. Angelica has worked with art institutions since 2016, some of which are the Whitney Museum, New York Historical Society, SOHO20 Art Gallery, and The Morgan Library.Eva Mayhabal Davis (b. Toluca, Mexico) is an arts advocate and curator. She has collaborated on exhibitions at BronxArtSpace, En Foco, Expressiones Cultural Center, MECA International Art Fair, Photoville NYC, Queens Museum, Ray Gallery, and Smack Mellon. Based in Brooklyn, she is a co-director at Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial initiative. She is currently the intake associate at UnLocal, Inc, a non-profit organization that provides direct immigration legal representation, legal consultations, and community education to New York City’s undocumented immigrant communities
Changemakers in Action: Changemakers in Human Rights: True Cost, Where We Are Now
No full text"Changemakers in Human Rights: True Cost" panel with Andrew Morgan, Filmmaker, Lucy Siegle, Journalist and Writer, and Vanessa Barboni Hallik, Another Tomorrow