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Podcasts by FIT Community Members Named “Best” by Vogue
Dressed: The History of Fashion, a podcast created and hosted by FIT Special Collections Associate April Calahan and FIT alumna […]
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Conserving a Chanel
The dress needed help. A 90-year-old, Art Deco–inspired masterpiece of beaded silk crepe by celebrated couturiere Gabrielle Chanel, it was […]
Read moreAnnual Fashion and Textile Studies Research Symposium: Clothing as Craft: People, Process, Product
Craft in clothing has been used to solidify communities and identities for millennia, emphasizing tradition, promoting resistance and social change, […]
Read moreExhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Closes
March 5–30, 2019 Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated […]
Read moreGrad Studies Invites: The Traphagen School: Designers in the Archive
This year’s Fashion and Textile Studies MA exhibition, The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion, explores the legacy of one of […]
Read moreExhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Opens
March 5–30, 2019 Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated […]
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Michelle Porrazzo
Michelle Porrazzo, Fashion Design ’18, helped fit Bruce Springsteen and his family for the 2018 Tony Awards in June. Springsteen’s […]
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Joy Davis
Joy Davis, Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice ’15, opened Waller Gallery, a 700-squarefoot space in Baltimore devoted […]
Read moreFashion and Textile Studies Symposium: Behind the Designer: Models, Muses, and Inspiration
In this symposium, students in FIT’s MA program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice will present papers on a range […]
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