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: On NBC’s new crafting competition show, Making It, Dayna Isom Johnson, Fashion Merchandising Management ’07, calls it like she sees it
When Dayna Isom Johnson studied Simon Doonan’s legendary window displays for Barneys New York in class at FIT, she was […]
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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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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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Three Recent FIT Graduates Selected for CFDA Fashion Future Graduate Showcase
Three Fashion Design majors who graduated in May are among the 53 recent graduates from eight schools who will show […]
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Smart Takes: Stephen A. Smith, Advertising and Communications
Whenever something happens in the world of sports—whether it’s a Game 7, a blockbuster trade, or an incendiary tweet—Stephen A. […]
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Artists in Residence: Interior Design Alumni Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller
A few years ago, designer Jason Wu moved his office/showroom to an industrial building in New York’s Garment District. Wu […]
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