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Tag: Black Fashion Designers

Valerie Steele at home in front of her bookcases

MFIT’s Steele Discusses Fashion and the Pandemic with CBS This Morning

September 22, 2020 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Museum

Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss “Fashion […]

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Spotlighting a Barrier-Busting Designer

February 5, 2020 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Alumni Home

  Last August, historian and curator Rachel Fenderson put on a retrospective exhibition about American couturier Jay Jaxon ’66 at […]

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Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture — Closes

February 23, 2018 Laura Hatmaker

Note: This exhibition has been extended; it will now close April 30. February 26–April 30, 2018 The Office of Educational […]

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Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture

February 23, 2018 Laura Hatmaker

February 26–March 31, 2018 The Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Leonard Davis present Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style […]

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Elizabeth Way of MFIT Wins Award

February 21, 2018 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, Museum

Elizabeth Way, assistant curator of costume at The Museum at FIT, has been awarded an Innovation in Collection award for […]

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Exhibition: Black Fashion Designers — Closes

November 2, 2016 Laura Hatmaker

December 6, 2016–May 16, 2017 Black Fashion Designers examines the impact made by designers of African descent on the world […]

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President Brown Shares Her Vision for FIT

March 24, 2017 FIT Newsroom Faculty/Staff, Top Stories

Tune in this weekend to see FIT President Joyce F. Brown on CUNY TV’s Black America. Dr. Brown speaks about […]

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Black Fashion Designers Symposium – SOLD OUT

December 7, 2016 Laura Hatmaker

The Museum at FIT will host a one-day symposium on February 6, 2017, featuring talks by designers, models, journalists, and […]

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Exhibition: Black Fashion Designers — Opens

November 2, 2016 Laura Hatmaker

December 6, 2016 – May 16, 2017 Black Fashion Designers examines the impact made by designers of African descent on […]

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FROM THE SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN BLOG

It’s More Than a Game for Clever Evolving Media Students

Tapping into the feelings of isolation, frustration, and a powerful need for students to connect from their remote locations, Illustration Professor Dan Shefelman challenged his students to create a video game designed to serve as a visual vaccine to current events. Read more

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Raising the Standard

Meet the alumna running the world’s oldest and largest flagmaker: Sandy Dennis Van Lieu. Read more

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