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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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Suvino and the rest of the production design team.

Alum Wins Art Directors Guild Award for ‘Reservation Dogs’

February 16, 2024 Alex Joseph Alumni, College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Top Stories

Work by an alumna for the F/X show Reservation Dogs won a prestigious Art Directors Guild Award. Stacy Suvino, Visual […]

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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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B Michael sitting in a chair on stage

Designer B Michael and Cicely Tyson: Fashion and Friendship

February 5, 2024 Alex Joseph Alumni, Center for Continuing & Professional Studies, College & Campus, Diversity, Events, Top Stories

Designer B Michael has dressed Beyoncé, Lena Horne, and Whitney Houston. When the alumnus came to FIT Jan. 31 to […]

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Grace Chen in conversation with Cathleen Sheehan, professor and chair, Fashion Design MFA in FIT's School of Graduate Studies.

Grace Chen Shares Her Journey, Designs During FIT Visit

January 29, 2024 Alexandra Mann Alumni, College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

When Grace Chen, Fashion Design ’96, sees a woman, she thinks of her as being in a story. Through her […]

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New Fine Arts Faculty Member Joins FIT in Spring 2024

January 29, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, Top Stories

At FIT’s spring 2024 convocation on January 25, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Yasemin Jones introduced this semester’s newest […]

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illustrations of garment designs

Two FIT Students Win Prestigious Fashion Scholarship Fund Awards

January 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

The 130 members of the Class of 2024 Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Scholars and Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholars were announced […]

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clothes on a rack

UNIQLO Partners with FIT on an Upcycling Collection for RE.UNIQLO Studio

December 18, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, School of Art & Design, Sustainability, Top Stories

More than 225 people gathered on Tuesday, December 12, at the UNIQLO Fifth Avenue Global Flagship Store to celebrate the […]

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two students working in the jewelry design studio

Ten Photos That Capture FIT in 2023

December 15, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Top Stories

FIT’s staff photographer, Smiljana Peros, can often be seen snapping photos on campus—on the Breezeway, on West 27th, on rooftops—or […]

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From 60,000-year-old Neanderthal “super-glue” to WWII-era milk-spun fabric, humans have always found ways to forge useful materials from whatever is on hand. Today, in Room C806 of the Feldman Center, FIT researcher Gwen Sanchirico is carrying that spirit of innovation into the future.

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