In this unprecedented moment, when no one can know for sure what will happen next, FIT’s extended community is mostly […]
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Author: Alex Joseph
A Message of Encouragement from FIT Faculty
We asked FIT faculty, “What’s your message to our students right now?” Their answers, composed of praise, encouragement, and hope, […]
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Stay Home? For this Award-Winning Faculty Illustrator, That’s OK
As of this moment, New York has all but shut down. Americans everywhere are finding out what it’s like to live […]
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Faculty Member Wins Fulbright to Study Syrian Refugee Experience
Museums have long been places for people seeking refuge; just ask anyone who’s ever visited The Met on a rainy […]
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SUNY Korea Students Design Chocolate Dresses
If these dresses look good enough to eat, don’t hold back: They’re mostly made of chocolate! FIT‘s third-semester Fashion Design […]
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MoMA Acquires Pacifico Silano’s ‘Cherry Lips’
Artist and FIT staff member Pacifico Silano re-photographs images from gay magazines of the 1970s and ’80s, and then assembles […]
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A Faculty Member’s Images of Vanishing Nomadic Tribes
In the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, Yörük nomads live largely according to the needs of their livestock, sometimes traveling hundreds […]
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Graduate Wins Prize for Outfit Made of Pineapple-Leaf Fabric
FIT crushed the competition recently in a contest for Ideation 2019, a conference arranged by the software company Gerber. Of […]
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Recent Graduate Wins Fellowship at Gucci
Recent FIT graduate Melanie Wong, Fashion Design ’19, is one of 11 recipients of Gucci’s first-ever Multicultural Design Fellowship. The […]
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Faculty Member and Alumna Produce Breast Cancer Garment
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here, we update a story we published in 2018 about a collaboration between a […]
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