Fashion and Textile Studies

Fashion and Textile Studies’ Exhibition Examines Utilitarian Fashion

March 9, 2026 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, School of Graduate Studies, Students, Top Stories

What happens when garments designed for protection, durability, and labor move beyond necessity and into the realm of fashion? Beyond […]

Building a Biomaterials Reference Library, One Avocado Skin at a Time

February 20, 2026 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Sustainability

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 […]

Rebecca Jumper Matheson and cover of the book Artisans and Designers

Rebecca Jumper Matheson Publishes Book on Phelps Associates

November 11, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Rebecca Jumper Matheson, adjunct instructor in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice, has published a new monograph, Artisans […]

Freelance conservator Janet Lee demonstrates to a group of graduate students, surrounding her work table, how to construct storage mounts for textile fragments in the first year Collections Management course in FIT's School of Graduate Studies.

Callie O’Connor Publishes Article on FIT’s Textile Studies in Leading Conservation Journal

November 6, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Museum, School of Graduate Studies

Callie O’Connor, assistant conservator at The Museum at FIT (MFIT), was lead author of a feature published in the October […]

Hilary Davidson and the Jane Austen pelisse she reconstructed on a dress form

Hilary Davidson’s Jane Austen Expertise on Full Display

July 9, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Graduate Studies

A silk pelisse coat created by Associate Professor Hilary Davidson, chair of FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum […]

Hilary Davidson Wins Award From Costume Society of America

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Hilary Davidson, associate chair of the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program in the School of Graduate Studies, […]

Fashion Culture: All That Glitters … Conservation and Sustainability of Fashion Collections

January 22, 2025 Laura Hatmaker

In connection to the exhibition All That Glitters … , The Museum at FIT and the master’s-level Fashion and Textile […]

Exhibition: All That Glitters … — Closes

January 22, 2025 Laura Hatmaker

February 26–March 23, 2025 The Museum at FIT Lobby FIT’s School of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with The Museum at […]

Exhibition: All That Glitters … — Opens

January 22, 2025 Laura Hatmaker

February 26–March 23, 2025 The Museum at FIT Lobby FIT’s School of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with The Museum at […]

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 […]