Skip to content
FIT Newsroom

FIT Newsroom

  • College & Campus
  • Students
  • Faculty/Staff
  • Alumni
  • Hue Magazine
  • Museum
  • Events
  • Contact Us
  • FIT Home

Category: College & Campus

Sketch of costumes for the Broadway musical Chicago.

Tony Winner, Broadway Costume Legend, FIT Alum

June 9, 2025 Alex Joseph Alumni, College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design

It’s hard to imagine Broadway musical history without legendary costume designer and FIT alum Patricia Zipprodt (1925–99). She received 11 […]

Read more
Bob Fisch stands between the four winners of his Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards.

CulturClasm and Brooks Avenue Each Receive
$25,000 for Entrepreneurial Excellence

May 27, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, FIT + Industry, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

On May 14, one team and one student from the School of Graduate Studies each received a $25,000 Bob Fisch […]

Read more
Photographs on a dark wall, on of a Black woman with a girl's mouth, four more of people in cities

Glimpses of the 2025 Graduating Student Exhibition

May 19, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Students

At this year’s Graduating Student Exhibition, May 13–25, culminating work from more than 600 students in 16 Art and Design […]

Read more
Harnoor Sekhon gives a presentation in front of a digital screen

2025 PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs Grand Prize Winner Develops Pre-Tied Turbans for Sikh Men

May 19, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Innovation, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

The winner of FIT’s fourth annual PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs was announced Wednesday, May 13, at FIT. The 2025 winner, […]

Read more
This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

Read more
model on the FIT Future of Fashion runway

Student Designs Heat Up the Runway

May 12, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Students, Top Stories

A full house of industry VIPs, media, faculty, and students gathered on FIT’s campus on Thursday, May 8, to watch […]

Read more
Baker Scholars, Baker Scholar Alumni, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, and Jay and Patty Baker pose for a photo on the patio of the FIT Dubinsky Center

Inside the New Baker Scholar Mentorship Program

May 5, 2025 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

Jay and Patty Baker have a simple message that they live by and share with everyone they meet: Give back. […]

Read more

Chalk FIT Is Back

May 5, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design, Students

For the past week, passersby along FIT’s Seventh Avenue entrance have been treated to the sight of Illustration students painting […]

Read more
Hilary Davidson headshot. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wears a beaded necklace and a black V-neck wrap top with a white floral print. She leans against a concrete gray pillar.

Hilary Davidson Wins Award From Costume Society of America

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Hilary Davidson, associate chair of the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program in the School of Graduate Studies, […]

Read more
Co-director of FIT Dance Company Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson smiles at the camera. She has her black hair in a topknot and wears a black open blazer with a navy blue scoop-neck top underneath.

Dance Team Co-Director Performs in Off-Broadway Musical

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay Athletics, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson (née Thomas), co-director of the FIT Dance Company team, is a member of the ensemble cast in the […]

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 120 Next Posts»

FIT Newsroom Direct

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required

View previous campaigns

FIT TIGERS

Kimiko Quayle mid stride in her FIT Athletics uniformTrack and Field’s Kimiko Quayle Named SUNY NJCAA Women’s Scholar Athlete of the Year

Only one female student athlete at the NJCAA level in the SUNY system is chosen per year. Read more about this prestigious award on the SUNY website.

HUE: THE MAGAZINE OF FIT

cover of Hue magazine summer 2025 issue showing a corkboard with Hue spelled with colored pushpinsCheck out Hue Summer 2025: The Workspaces Issue. Now online at hue.fitnyc.edu.

FIT Newsroom is managed by the
Office of Communications and External Relations
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B905
227 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Media Relations
Newsroom Direct Newsletter Archive
Submit an Item for Newsroom