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Todd Snyder’s Business Advice: ‘Be Nice’

September 23, 2024 Alex Joseph Alumni, Events, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

On September 17, FIT’s Global Fashion Management (GFM) master’s program hosted menswear designer Todd Snyder for an engaging conversation and […]

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collage of four images from the MFA runways show featuring garments by Bryan Barrientos, Talia Abbe, Jiajie Xu, and Yixuan Apple Zhao

MFA Runway Show Takes Audience ‘Beyond’ Fashion Boundaries

September 16, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

On Sept. 10, FIT’s sun-filled Art and Design Gallery played host to this year’s annual Fashion Design Master of Fine […]

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FIT Foundation Board member Bob Fisch awards a $25,000 prize to a Fashion Design or Global Fashion Management capstone project, followed by a reception. on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

Graduate Students Each Awarded $25,000 Bob Fisch Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

June 24, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

On May 22, two students from the School of Graduate Studies each received a $25,000 Bob Fisch Award for Entrepreneurial […]

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Experience the Urgent, Personal Works of FIT’s 2024 Illustration MFA Grads

June 24, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Events, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

In just three years of intensive study, the 16 students in the graduating class of the 2024 Master of Fine […]

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FIT Opens the Beauty Center at FIT

June 10, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, FIT + Industry, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

On Monday, June 3, during a joint meeting of the advisory boards of FIT’s Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management […]

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B Michael and President Joyce F. Brown at FIT's 2024 Commencement

Life Lessons From Industry Luminaries at FIT’s 2024 Commencement

May 28, 2024 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, College & Campus, FIT + Industry, School of Graduate Studies, SUNY, Top Stories

“Never forget where you came from,” were the closing words of retail legend Mickey Drexler in his FIT commencement address […]

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DePaola's reconstruction of Washington's inauguration suit and DePaola with the original suit in a lab

Replicating George Washington’s Silk Suit: A Presidents Day Story

February 20, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

Philip DePaola, a second-year student in FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program, grew up visiting Colonial […]

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Cristina Ng Ng, Margarita Ng Ng, Papa Oppong, Valeria Watson, Deborah Won and Anthony Oyer, on the set of Today with Hoda and Jenna

Six FIT Fashion Design MFA Graduates Featured on ‘TODAY’

February 20, 2024 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

In celebration of Fashion Month and fashion education, NBC’s TODAY with Hoda & Jenna has partnered exclusively with FIT on […]

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Bob Fisch sitting at a panel discussion table held on the FIT campus on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

Entrepreneur Bob Fisch Awards 10 Scholarships to Graduate Students

December 18, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies

On December 12, 10 students from the School of Graduate Studies’ Global Fashion Management MPS and Fashion Design MFA programs […]

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FIT Connections to Civil Rights History Honored Throughout Fall 2023

November 27, 2023 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Diversity, Events, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, School of Graduate Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Students, Top Stories

In 2023, two monumental events in U.S. civil rights history had significant anniversaries—the New York City Draft Riots in 1863 […]

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