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Graduate Studies Invites: Keanan Duffty
No full textJoin fashion designer and musician Keanan Duffty and FIT Dean for the School of Graduate Studies Mary Davis for a talk on fashion, music, and everything in between. Davis holds a Ph.D. and A.M. degrees in musicology from Harvard University. While heading the music department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland before arriving at FIT, she served as the university’s liaison to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Duffty is an award-winning British fashion designer, musician, and author of Rebel Rebel Anti-Style. He dressed the Sex Pistols for their 2003 American tour and in 2007 collaborated with David Bowie to create a fashion collection for Target.This event is part of the Graduate Studies Invites series, hosted by FIT’s School of Graduate Studies
Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function: A Pocket Guide to Slavery
No full textA lecture on the history of pockets in enslaved people’s clothing and its modern implications in African-American dress. This event was moderated and organized by students in FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies MA program
The Many Colorways of Sneakerheads with Bobbito Garcia
No full textCalling all sneaker fanatics, sneaker enthusiasts, sneakerheads, and sneaker fans. Legendary air personality, sneaker author/designer/historian, award-winning filmmaker and former professional basketball player in Puerto Rico, New York City native Bobbito Garcia is a freelance creative who has put an indelible footprint on multiple urban movements including the sneakerhead culture. Bobbito, aka Kool Bob Love, will discuss the early days of sneaker collecting, with Accessories Design faculty members Ellen Goldstein-Lynch and Gregg Woodcock and Social Sciences faculty members Yuni Kawamura and Dan Levinson Wilk.Sponsored by the UCE of FIT and the schools of Liberal Arts and Art and Design
Fashion Culture: Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis
No full textFern Mallis, creator of New York Fashion Week, introduces her new book, Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis. The book offers 19 interviews with American fashion luminaries--such as Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, and Tom Ford--from Mallis's ongoing series of conversations at New York's prestigious 92nd Y.This event was held March 1, 2016 at The Museum at FIT, NYC
Fashion Culture: Misty Copeland in conversation with Valerie Steele
No full textMisty Copeland is a soloist with American Ballet Theatre. In 2007 she made history by becoming their second African American Female Soloist and the first in two decades. In September 2014, she was the first black woman to perform the lead role of Odette/Odile in American Ballet Theatre’s production of Swan Lake during the company’s first ever tour to Australia. Misty is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Life in Motion (2014), co-written with Charisse Jones, and of the picture book Firebird (2014) in collaboration with Christopher Myers.Misty Copeland was in conversation with Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT on Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Methods of Basic Draping, v. 14. Six Gore Skirt
No full text“Methods of Basic Draping” was produced by FIT in 1982 and is still used today. It’s an FIT classic!Instructor, Professor Mary Ann Ferro; Technical supervision, Hedda Gold; fashion illustration, Linda Tain; television supervision, Lee White; produced and directed by Jeffrey Buchman. Presented by the Fashion Design Apparel Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Talking Trade: Understanding the Importance of Cultural Diversity in Global Business
No full textFIT's International Trade and Marketing Department, in partnership with Prof. Subash Midha, Global Strategy Advisory (India) International Business and Finance, NYU, presents Talking Trade: Understanding the Importance of Cultural Diversity in Global Business. A panel of experts will discuss how cultural diversity serves to enrich career satisfaction while achieving corporate missions in the global marketplace.Welcome: Dean Steven Frumkin, Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, Fashion Institute of TechnologyKeynote Speaker: Ms. Nicole Arnaboldi, J.D., Managing Director & Vice Chairman, Asset Management Division, Credit Suisse Group AGCollaborator/Moderator: Prof. Subash Midha, Global Strategy Advisory (India), International Business and Finance, NYUPanelists: Olga Vidisheva, Founder and CEO, Shoptiques.com; Terrence Clark, President and CEO of the New York New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council; Patricia Goodwin-Peters, Vice President of Global Rewards, Kate Spade & Company
Methods of Basic Draping, v. 17. Attaching Collars
No full text“Methods of Basic Draping” was produced by FIT in 1982 and is still used today. It’s an FIT classic!Instructor, Professor Nurie Relis; Technical supervision, Hedda Gold; fashion illustration, Linda Tain; television supervision, Lee White; produced and directed by Jeffrey Buchman. Presented by the Fashion Design Apparel Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Stay with Me
No full textAuthor Catherine Harvey will kick off an international book tour for her forthcoming title Stay with Me: The Most Creative Hotel Brands in the World. Stay with Me features some recent hotel brand strategies that integrate mission with material expression. Harvey will talk about her interest in branded experiences, design trends, and branding strategy of hotels in New York and abroad. She will also discuss sustainability within these branding campaigns.Harvey is a graphic designer with over ten years experience working in Asia, Europe, and Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Design (BVisComm) from Monash University in Australia and is currently completing her master’s in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.This event is part of Gladys Marcus Library’s ongoing Love Your Library series
Fashion Culture: This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour
No full textOn April 12, 2016, Elizabeth Wissinger presented her book, This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour, an illustrated history of modeling and an incisive critique of fashion media. Wissinger showed that the work of the fashion model has been so amplified by digital media that we all have come to manage ourselves as brands