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Category: Top Stories

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 […]

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Exhibition and Experience Design Students Present Alongside Industry Experts

November 7, 2022 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

On Oct. 13 and 14, the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) held two in-person events—Branded Environments and Xlab in […]

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chalk illustrations on the outside walls FIT

Chalk FIT Is Music to Our Eyes

November 7, 2022 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design, Students, Top Stories

Chalk FIT is back on the college’s facade with artwork created by students from the Illustration and Interactive Media class […]

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Kyunghee Pyun and poster for V&A's Fashion Masculinities exhibition

Kyunghee Pyun’s Research on Dandyism Receives Recognition at Symposium

October 27, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Professor Kyunghee Pyun’s research into hybrid dandyism across history is finding broad recognition in academia and museums around the world. […]

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Four people sit on stage in front of a banner reading "PI Apparel New York"

International Trade and Marketing Educators Present at Supply-Chain Conference

October 26, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Top Stories

A supply-chain conference recently featured two FIT educators sharing insights on how businesses can do better at bringing products to […]

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Angie Cruz and cover of book How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Literary Star Angie Cruz ’94 Discusses Her New Novel

October 14, 2022 Alex Joseph Alumni, Alumni Home, Diversity, Top Stories

In September, the fourth novel by Angie Cruz, Fashion Design ’94, was reviewed on the cover of The New York […]

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Roxanne Lowit

Remembering Renowned Alumna Photographer Roxanne Lowit

October 7, 2022 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, Top Stories

Celebrated behind-the-scenes photographer Roxanne Lowit, Textile Design ’64, died in September. Vogue, WWD, Dazed, and W magazines paid tribute, and […]

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Theanne Schiros and an illustration from Environmental Science Advances shows bio-leather dyed with various natural substances and two applications of the material.

Major Recognition for Theanne Schiros’s Bioleather Research

September 28, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Innovation, School of Liberal Arts, Sustainability, Top Stories

Theanne Schiros’s research into microbial leather is finding broad recognition in the academic and popular press. Schiros, associate professor of […]

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Amy Lemmon in pink shirt seated at a writing desk

Amy Lemmon Completes Juried Residency at Saltonstall

September 11, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Last summer, Amy Lemmon, a poet and professor of English and Communication Studies, completed her first residency—a four-week fellowship at […]

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Disney Revolt cover and Jake Friedman

Animation Historian Jake Friedman Reveals Disney’s Labor History

September 11, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, Top Stories

FIT faculty member Jake S. Friedman, instructor of the History of Animation course, has published his third book. In The […]

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Sun 05

Exhibition: Chasing a Dying River: Ghat 24 Yamuna, Delhi, India — Opens

February 5
Wed 08

Exhibition: FIT Fabulous: A Modern Investigation of Hip Hop — Opens

February 8
Wed 08

Exhibition: Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop — Opens

February 8
Sun 12

Exhibition: Out of Body or Out of Place? — Closes

February 12
Mon 13

Diversity Collective Meet and Greet

February 13 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am

ON FITTIGERS.COM

Devin Rotunno and Andrea Distefano

Two Students Named SUNY Scholar-Athlete Award Winners

Congratulations to Andrea Distefano for being named the Fall SUNY Scholar Athlete Women’s Cross Country Award winner and to Devin Rotunno for being named the Fall SUNY Scholar Athlete Women’s Tennis Award winner during SUNY’s inaugural year of naming SUNY-wide Scholar Athletes. Full story at FIT’s sports website, FITTigers.com

THE MUSEUM AT FIT

two women standing in front of graffiti; photo by Jamel ShabazzFresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style Opens Feb. 8

The exhibition will feature over 100 garments and accessories as well as images by New York photographer Jamel Shabazz. More details

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