Near the start of a storyboarding course for at-risk high school students this summer, Associate Professor Dan Shefelman asked the […]
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Author: Jonathan Vatner
Interior Design Student Wins Prestigious Donghia Scholarship
Ahene Shin, Interior Design ’19, has won a $30,000 Senior Student Scholarship Award from the Angelo Donghia Foundation. Each year, […]
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Remembering Professor Alfred V. Sloan, Jr.
Professor Alfred V. Sloan, Jr., died July 27. Working in FIT’s Fashion Buying and Merchandising department (now Fashion Business Management) […]
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Making the Office Work: How Suzette Subance Ferrier’s Workplace Designs Foster Innovation
Last year, Contract, a national magazine devoted to commercial interior design, named Suzette Subance Ferrier its Designer of the Year. […]
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New York’s Most Colorful Home Featured in Netflix Series
Art blog Hyperallergic called the Upper East Side home of artist Apryl Miller, Fashion Design ’89, “one of the most […]
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An Alum’s Photographs of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Campaign Trail
Last year, José A. Alvarado Jr., Photography ’13, noticed some intriguing Instagram posts promoting the congressional campaign of an unknown […]
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FIT Installs Restroom Signs for a Non-Binary World
Because she keeps her hair short and wears a tie, History of Art Professor Anna Blume is often mistaken for […]
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An American Family: Three Generations of Restrepos Found Their Footing at FIT
This comic strip by Nate Restrepo, Illustration ’19, describes some of the milestones in his gender transition. On a chilly […]
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What Inspires You?: My Mother’s Sewing Machine
With a little oil, Margaret Pasqualino’s Singer sewing machine still works. Her yardstick is still nailed to the front, as is the apron that held her pocketbook and belongings while she labored.
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Business Grad Helped Make History at the Oscars
This year, Daniela Vega became the first openly transgender presenter at the Academy Awards. An FIT alumnus, working with W […]
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