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FIT president Joyce F. Brown to step down in 2025

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a part of the State University of New York (SUNY), has announced that its long-time leader Joyce F. Brown is stepping down as president. Brown was appointed as the FIT’s first female and first African American president in 1998 and will step down at the end of the 2024–2025 academic school year after...

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FIT runway and gala celebrates Class of 24, Norma Kamali and Kenneth Cole

FIT’s annual Future of Fashion Runway Show presented by Macy’s took place on Wednesday, May 8, at The Glasshouse in New York City. Guests navigated the groups of NYPD and pro-Palestine protesters outside the venue, not an uncommon sight these days on New York campuses but noteworthy outside an independent event space. From left to right: Norma...

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‘Design the Look’: FIT graduates featured on NBC’s Today Show

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City announced an exclusive partnership with US news network NBC and its emblematic Today show ‘in celebration of Fashion Month and fashion education’. Six young designers who recently graduated from the MFA programme in fashion design at FIT were featured on NBC’s The Today show with Hoda &...

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With Love Halston scholarship awards return to FIT

The third With Love Halston scholarship awards took place on May 15 at a select gathering at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The scholarship, founded by the late American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick’s niece, Lesley Frowick, to celebrate and honor his fashion legacy, launched in spring last year with a glittering affair at NYC...

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FIT honours Karlie Kloss and Victor Glemaud at Future of Fashion Celebration

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York has announced a date for the Future of Fashion Celebration and Honors, where notable fashion figureheads Victor Glemaud and Karlie Kloss will be celebrated on May 10, 2023. The event will be hosted by prominent model Ashley Graham. Glemaud, a designer and alumnus of the university, will be...

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Museum at FIT: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop in American fashion

When you open the doors of the Museum at FIT their red carpet guides you down two roads, one of which leads you through double doors decorated with two photos of fashionable everyday New Yorkers taken by photographer Jamel Shabazz. As you walk through and down the stairwell you’re greeted with more colorful photos taken by Shabazz which all...

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Leonard A. Lauder launches cosmetics scholarship fund with FIT

Fashion school the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York has announced a new one million dollar scholarship in collaboration with Leonard A. Lauder, former chairman of global cosmetics giant the Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), as per a press release shared by the school. The new FIT opportunity, entitled ‘Scholarship in Cosmetics and...

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Bloomingdale’s and FIT launch Sustainable Innovation Fund

US fashion department store chain Bloomingdale’s is celebrating its 150th anniversary this autumn and has teamed up with the Fashion Institute of Technology to launch the Bloomingdale's x FIT Sustainable Innovation Fund. It has also announced the launch of its new social purpose platform entitled b the change. The aim of the Sustainable Fashion...

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FIT collaborates with MFIT to present ‘Asian Americans in New York Fashion: Design, Labour, Innovation’

The Fashion Institute of Technology’s (FIT) School of Graduate Studies has collaborated with The Museum at FIT (MFIT) to present the exhibition entitled ‘Asian Americans in New York Fashion: Design, Labor, Innovation’ from 2 to 27 March 2022. The exhibition was organised by FIT’s fashion and textile graduate students to celebrate the Asian...

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Fashion Institute of Technology establishes social justice centre

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has announced the establishment of its Social Justice Centre (SJC), a higher education program that is focused on increasing opportunity. Aimed at the Black, Indigenous and people of colour community, the centre looks to accelerate social equity within the creative industry. The centre has received...

Podcast

Podcast: Gucci Podcast discusses the importance of archives

In this episode, the Gucci Podcast has discussed the importance of keeping archives to preserve and collect history with guests Valerie Steele, director and curator of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Vogue fashion journalist Luke Leitch. Listen to the podcast below. Gucci Podcast · The importance of keeping an archive...

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Reinvention and restlessness, fashion in the 90s

Ah, the 90s. The decade belongs to a whole other century, indeed millennium. Its image is tight and ripe for exploration unlike the first two decades of the new millennium which have been a bit messy and hard to pin down. Those of us who were adults then look back on the decade with nostalgia; those who are discovering it for the first time, are...