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Museum at FIT plans retrospective for 50th anniversary

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology is hosting a retrospective of its own history. For the museum’s 50th anniversary next month, its celebratory exhibition will be a recap of some of its most popular exhibits in its history. Titled “Exhibitionism: 50 Year of the Museum at FIT,” the exhibit will be a conglomeration of 33 of its most...

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In Pictures: Fabric in Fashion Exhibit at FIT

New York - Just opened at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, the exhibit “Fabric in Fashion” demonstrates the journey from fiber to fabric to fashionable garment through a collection of garments, film footage and flat fabric swatches. Curated by Elizabeth Way and celebrating two and a half centuries of innovation, the show is divided...

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In Pictures: Fabric in Fashion Exhibit at FIT

Just opened at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, the exhibit “Fabric in Fashion” demonstrates the journey from fiber to fabric to fashionable garment through a collection of garments, film footage and flat fabric swatches. Curated by Elizabeth Way and celebrating two and a half centuries of innovation, the show is divided into four...

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FIT spotlights Fabric in Fashion in new museum exhibit

“Before the 20th century, stylish women who consumed Western fashion were well-versed in cloth. They could easily distinguish between fibers and weaves and were knowledgeable about the origin, quality and costs of the fabrics they wore.” So reads the introductory statement in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s “Fabric in Fashion” exhibit...

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Four years out of school, one fashion graduate’s story

A summa cum laude graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and winner of the Joe’s Blackbook Design Scholarship in 2014, Dashiel Brahmann has worked with Thom Browne and started his own eponymous label. To many students itching to get out of school and test their mettle in the real world, Dash, as he prefers to be known, is living...

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FIT’s The Body; Fashion and Physique is A Perfect Fit

The Body: Fashion and Physique, the exhibition at The Museum at FIT which opened this week puts a fitting cap on a year of remarkable activity within society at large around female empowerment. One could argue that the show highlights the myriad ways fashion has oppressively wrought its misogyny on females throughout history or one could marvel...

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FIT Offers Bright Strategies for Sustainability Part 3: Future Tech

On the heels of the president’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, as members of his administration continue to demonstrate an immunity to science or knowledge on matters that effect our planet, members of the fashion industry gather at FIT for its annual Summer Institute. Panelists of sustainability mavericks and leaders reveal the...

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FIT Offers Bright Strategies for Sustainable Fashion Part 2: Cotton

On the heels of the president’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, as members of his administration continue to demonstrate an immunity to science or knowledge on matters that effect our planet, members of the fashion industry gather at FIT for its annual Summer Institute. Panelists of sustainability mavericks and leaders reveal the...

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FIT Offers Bright Strategies for Sustainable Fashion - Part 1

On the heels of the president’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, as members of his administration continue to demonstrate an immunity to science or knowledge on matters that effect our planet, members of the fashion industry gather at FIT for its annual Summer Institute. Panelists of sustainability mavericks and leaders reveal the...

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FIT Class of 2017 Represents The Future of Fashion

FIT together with Calvin Klein celebrated the “Future of Fashion” on Monday evening and judging by what was shown on the runway the future is upon us. These graduates are set to occupy the industry. Across categories of womenswear, childrenswear and, particularly impressively, intimate apparel, the students’ visions also demonstrated the...

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Fern Mallis named director of FIT Foundation

The FIT Foundation has just named a new director. The non-profit corporation hired on fashion and design consultant Fern Mallis to take over the new role. Mallis is most known as the founder, consultant, and author of New York Fashion Week. In joining the advisory board, Mallis was just appointed as director in order to help fundraise for FIT....

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Fashion

Financiers turned fashionistas get creative in New York

His small workshop in a friend's house in industrial Brooklyn is a far cry from the glass skyscraper on Madison Avenue where he worked as an investment banker. But Eric Steffen is happy. Aged 39, he's ditched his career in finance to reinvent himself as a menswear designer. At a table in the low-hanging, window-less basement, he unrolls denim...

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