Alexandra Mann

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

UNIQLO Partners with FIT on an Upcycling Collection for RE.UNIQLO Studio

December 18, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, School of Art & Design, Sustainability, Top Stories

More than 225 people gathered on Tuesday, December 12, at the UNIQLO Fifth Avenue Global Flagship Store to celebrate the […]

From left: Mary Addison Davis, Michael Ferraro, Habin Lee, and Edwin Goodman

2023 PETE Prize Winners Develop Therapeutic Athletic Wear for People with Injuries

December 4, 2023 Alexandra Mann Alumni, College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, Students, Top Stories

The winners of FIT’s second annual PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs were announced during Entrepreneurship Month on Thursday, November 30, at a breakfast […]

The Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar

November 11, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Events, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

On Saturday, November 11, FIT launched its Fashion Calendar Research Database (FCRD), a digital humanities project and open-source research database […]