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Author: Alexandra Mann

Students feeling mohair yarn in a laboratory setting

Slow Fashion Capstone Project Highlights Four Sustainable Fibers

May 28, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

  The 33 students who developed this year’s Textile Development and Marketing capstone project, titled “Farm to Fabric,” describe it […]

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Rebecca Hessel Cohen, Kenneth Cole, Norma Kamali, and Dr. Joyce F. Brown

Kenneth Cole, Rebecca Hessel Cohen, and FIT Alumna Norma Kamali Honored at 2024 Gala

May 13, 2024 Alexandra Mann Alumni, College & Campus, Events, Top Stories

On Wednesday, May 8, FIT held its Annual Awards Gala, which included the Future of Fashion Runway Show presented by Macy’s, […]

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Business Students Present Sustainability Project at World Retail Congress

April 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

A team of students from FIT’s School of Business and Technology, representing the United States, developed an innovative retail concept […]

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A Journey Through American Fragrance with Michael Edwards

April 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Events, Top Stories

Most of us remember the first scent we ever wore, our high school or college fragrance, and the one we […]

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DePaola's reconstruction of Washington's inauguration suit and DePaola with the original suit in a lab

Replicating George Washington’s Silk Suit: A Presidents Day Story

February 20, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

Philip DePaola, a second-year student in FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program, grew up visiting Colonial […]

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Finding the Creativity in What People Do: Susan Daykin on Art and Teaching

February 12, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design

The Colorful Influence of Susan Daykin is not just a retrospective of one artist’s work—it’s also a look at the […]

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Graphical abstract from Sarkar, Islam, and Gao's EPA grant

FIT Receives Grant to Develop Reusable Face Masks from Plastic Waste

February 5, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability, Top Stories

The worst of the pandemic may be largely over, but the waste from everyone’s face masks isn’t. Now three Textile […]

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Grace Chen in conversation with Cathleen Sheehan, professor and chair, Fashion Design MFA in FIT's School of Graduate Studies.

Grace Chen Shares Her Journey, Designs During FIT Visit

January 29, 2024 Alexandra Mann Alumni, College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

When Grace Chen, Fashion Design ’96, sees a woman, she thinks of her as being in a story. Through her […]

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illustrations of garment designs

Two FIT Students Win Prestigious Fashion Scholarship Fund Awards

January 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

The 130 members of the Class of 2024 Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Scholars and Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholars were announced […]

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Bob Fisch sitting at a panel discussion table held on the FIT campus on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

Entrepreneur Bob Fisch Awards 10 Scholarships to Graduate Students

December 18, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies

On December 12, 10 students from the School of Graduate Studies’ Global Fashion Management MPS and Fashion Design MFA programs […]

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