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Author: Alexandra Mann

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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Lilach Porges and Zining Ye

Two Fashion Design MFA Graduates Named Global Design Graduate Show Winners

October 30, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

Two 2023 Fashion Design MFA graduates—Lilach Porges and Zining Ye—have been named winners in the 2023 Global Design Graduate Show […]

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Hee Jin Hwang standing with a garment on a hanger; model on a runway wearing that same garment

A Supima Competition Finalist’s Sculptural Works

October 9, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Top Stories

When you look at Fashion Design BFA alumna Hee Jin Hwang’s exquisite designs, you are also seeing the impact and […]

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FROM HUE MAGAZINE

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Just Call Her JP

Fresh off One Battle After Another‘s Oscar win for Best Picture, we’re celebrating one of its standout stars: FIT Fashion Merchandising Management alumna Shayna McHayle, also known as Junglepussy, also known as JP. Check out our profile of the alum in FIT’s magazine, Hue.

SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT

Gwen Sanchirico leans over a drawer of colorful glass petri dishes Building a Biomaterials Reference Library, One Avocado Skin at a Time

From 60,000-year-old Neanderthal “super-glue” to WWII-era milk-spun fabric, humans have always found ways to forge useful materials from whatever is on hand. Today, in Room C806 of the Feldman Center, FIT researcher Gwen Sanchirico is carrying that spirit of innovation into the future.

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