FIT + Industry – Page 4

Cotton Board Honors Sonja Chapman for International Women’s Day

April 10, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Business & Technology

For International Women’s Day— March 8 this year — the Cotton Board highlighted associate professor and board chair Sonja Chapman as […]

photo of Macy's Flower Show window by FIT students with pairs of shoes on an illustrated path with illustrated flowers surrounding it

Big Dreams Bloom at Macy’s Flower Show

April 3, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, Students

This semester, five FIT students came together to design a window as part of a design challenge for the 48th […]

Closeup of Victor Glemaud in a blue sweater speaking into a microphone

FIT’s First Entrepreneurship Summit

March 27, 2023 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Center for Continuing & Professional Studies, College & Campus, Events, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

FIT’s Center for Continuing and Professional Studies and the FIT Foundation held the first Entrepreneurship Summit in the Katie Murphy […]

Sustainable Fashion Initiative Features Student Designs and Kerry Washington as Panelist

March 20, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design, School of Graduate Studies

On Thursday, March 16, Marie Claire and Kering held a sustainability-themed event, Fashion Our Future, featuring an exclusively FIT pop-up […]

Black and white headshots of Christie Shin and C. J. Yeh

Christie Shin and C.J. Yeh Invited to Jury 2023 Young Ones Competition

March 13, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design

C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin, Creative Technology & Design, have been invited to join the jury panel for the 2023 […]

C.J. Yeh to Join Review Board of SIGGRAPH, Premier Design Conference

January 4, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design

C.J. Yeh, Creative Technology and Design, has been invited to join the 2023 SIGGRAPH Review Board. SIGGRAPH is the world’s […]

Ajoy Sarkar and Imran Islam in front of a presentation board

Textile Development and Marketing Faculty and Students Collaborate on Research

January 3, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

Two Textile Development and Marketing faculty members presented work at conferences this fall—including one industry project conducted with students. At […]

The three CFMM graduates posing with an award.

Three CFMM Graduates accepted the WWD Beauty Biz “Brand of Year (Mass Markets)” Award

December 19, 2022 Alexandra Mann Alumni, College & Campus, FIT + Industry, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

Three graduates of the Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management program, class of 2009, now working together as C-Suite executives […]

‘Creative Industry’ Exhibition Highlights Alumni Work

November 18, 2022 Alexandra Mann Alumni, Featured, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design

FIT is a place for innovation and experimentation, a school built for exploration. So when students of the School of […]

cover of Fat Fashion book; Yuniya Kawamura; Paolo Volonte

Who’s Afraid of Fatness in Fashion?

November 9, 2022 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Diversity, Events, Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

Would you consider fashion to be size-inclusive in 2022? If you answered yes, Paolo Volonté, author of Fat Fashion: The […]