FIT’s digital faculty made an appearance at New York’s Digital Fashion Week earlier this year. C.J. Yeh and Michael Posso, […]
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Category: Innovation
Werewool Wins Competition Seeking Solutions to Microplastics Pollution
A biotech team formed at FIT has won the Conservation X Labs Microfiber Innovation Challenge, a competition seeking solutions to […]
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FIT’s DTech Lab Launches the PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs
On Tuesday, March 1, FIT’s DTech Lab launched the PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs, a student award that recognizes excellence in […]
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Linen, Without the Wrinkles
Linen has long bedeviled designers: The durable, renewable, and sustainable fabric is extremely prone to wrinkling, particularly in the humid […]
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The Future of Textiles Is Collaborative: MIT and FIT Develop Transdisciplinary Innovation Playbook
How-to manual codifies successful textiles partnership between designers, engineers When MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) joined forces […]
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Inside FIT’s Four National Science Foundation–Funded Projects
FIT faculty and student research activity has never been more robust. Case in point: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has […]
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NEA Grant Funds Sustainability STEAM Education
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded FIT a $25,000 grant titled “Unconventional Innovation: New Design for a […]
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FIT’s First Online Interactive Fashion Event Launches April 6 with Made-to-Order Shopping
An inaugural pilot program—powered by Bambuser—launched April 6 and features an online interactive fashion event with made-to-order shopping from debut […]
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Engineering Smart Textiles That Can Save Lives
At the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, Fashion Design alum Vanessa Sanchez developed robotic textiles that could […]
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Faculty Member Wins Fulbright to Study Syrian Refugee Experience
Museums have long been places for people seeking refuge; just ask anyone who’s ever visited The Met on a rainy […]
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