Fashion Culture: ‘Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era’ with Kimberly Alexander

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Cover of Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Join author Kimberly S. Alexander for a presentation of Treasures Afoot, her intriguing new book that interweaves biography and material culture with full-color photographs to tell how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the eighteenth century. Alexander traces […]

2019 Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Innovation in Sustainability

John E. Reeves Great Hall Conference Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

April 3 and 4, 2019 The Sustainability Council at FIT hosts a Sustainable Business and Design Conference each spring. The event provides a platform for collaboration and discussion throughout the creative industries, highlighting advances in sustainable design and thought leadership. Environmental and social challenges and potential solutions are explored through innovative student projects, cross-institutional research, […]

FIT Authors: Sharon Rothman

Gladys Marcus Library, Goodman Resource Center, Room E435 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

At this FIT Authors event, Assistant Professor Sharon Rothman talks about her book The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook. The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook is a step-by-step guide to making and using sketchbooks as an experimental design lab to visually explain your design ideas. Three distinct types of sketchbook, each representing a different phase in the design process, evolve […]

The Clothesline Project

The Clothesline Project

Dubinsky Student Center Lobby Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

FIT supports the Clothesline Project, a visual display that bears witness to the relationship violence. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with shirts; each shirt is decorated to represent a particular person’s experience, by the survivor themselves or by someone who cares about them. You can view this public display throughout the month of April […]

Holocaust Commemoration: American Responses Exhibit

Feldman Center Lobby Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

As part of FIT’s annual Holocaust commemoration, a photographic exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will be presented alongside contemporary photographs.