When Renée Minus White began taking classes at FIT in the early 1960s, she had already performed with the likes […]
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An Artistic Life
I lived on Union Turnpike in Flushing, across the street from Jamaica Estates, where Donald Trump was brought up. As […]
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Choreographing the Ballroom Scenes on FX’s Pose
In spring 2017, Twiggy Pucci Garçon was both excited and worried to hear that Ryan Murphy, producer of Glee and […]
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Spotlighting a Barrier-Busting Designer
Last August, historian and curator Rachel Fenderson put on a retrospective exhibition about American couturier Jay Jaxon ’66 at […]
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Pet Fashion Designer to the Stars
Meet the Grad Overseeing Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand
In September, Rihanna made history by staging a star-powered, mega-inclusive musical fashion show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to […]
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Creating Fine Jewelry for the Met Store
In 1990, Donna Distefano Thomas, Jewelry Design ’82, was hired to work in the jewelry studio in the basement of […]
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Recent Jewelry Design Graduate Earns Major Industry Honor
This year, Angely Martinez, Jewelry Design ’18, won the Future of the Industry Award from MJSA, an industry association of […]
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She Made It
Now she’s the one schooling him. Johnson and Doonan are judges on the NBC crafting seriesMaking It—hosted by Amy Poehler […]
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Ethical Threads: Behind the Global Apparel Industry’s Push for Human Rights
In 2013, dozens of American and European fashion firms were producing garments at the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh when […]
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