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Category: Sustainability

Professor and student creating a redding material in a beaker

Student-Faculty Duo Creates Compostable Leather Alternative

April 21, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

For the capstone project in Technical Design this spring, graduating students were asked to create an innovative garment. Isabella Estevez, […]

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FIT President Joyce F. Brown with Sustainability Council Chair Karen R. Peterson at the FIT Changemaker Award ceremony, where Dr. Brown received the award for her legacy of contributions to sustainability at FIT.

Sustainability Conference Welcomes Circularity Trailblazers

April 14, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

On April 8 and 9, FIT’s 19th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference, Charting a Course Toward Circularity, brought together […]

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Students feeling mohair yarn in a laboratory setting

Slow Fashion Capstone Project Highlights Four Sustainable Fibers

May 28, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

  The 33 students who developed this year’s Textile Development and Marketing capstone project, titled “Farm to Fabric,” describe it […]

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Two cylindrical containers with green pipes coming out of them

FIT Invests in Energy-Efficient Infrastructure

April 29, 2024 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

In the fight against climate change, individual action is important, but upgrading infrastructure makes a much larger impact. This spring, […]

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Business Students Present Sustainability Project at World Retail Congress

April 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

A team of students from FIT’s School of Business and Technology, representing the United States, developed an innovative retail concept […]

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FIT’s Sustainability Conference Looks to the Future

April 15, 2024 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

At the 18th annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference, April 9 and 10, innovators across the sustainability spectrum shared their […]

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hands pulling wool into yarn at a desk

Bringing Fashion Back to the Farm

March 18, 2024 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability, Top Stories

When Lorenza Wong took on responsibility for the Textile Development and Marketing capstone course, she rewrote it from scratch. Before this […]

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A composite image; on the left, a man and woman in white T-shirts; on the right, a man in a black T-shirt and black shorts.

C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin Launch a Sustainable Lifestyle Brand

February 12, 2024 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, Sustainability

Creative Technology and Design professors C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin have launched a lifestyle brand that aims to join urbanwear […]

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Graphical abstract from Sarkar, Islam, and Gao's EPA grant

FIT Receives Grant to Develop Reusable Face Masks from Plastic Waste

February 5, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability, Top Stories

The worst of the pandemic may be largely over, but the waste from everyone’s face masks isn’t. Now three Textile […]

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Model poses in garments by the top three winners (from left): Nadia Phie, Benjamin Halunen, and Emila Cha.

Students Redefine Sustainable Luxury Outerwear with The RealReal

January 29, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design, Students, Sustainability

Last fall, The RealReal, an online marketplace for authenticated resale luxury goods, partnered with FIT to offer Fashion Design students […]

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Cross-Pollination: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Check out work from this collaborative project between students and faculty at FIT and in Mexico, and Singapore that used The Museum at FIT’s recent Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis as inspiration. Find it in the Goodman Center Lobby, near the museum galleries, through April 19.

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