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Tag: Sustainability

Fashion Culture: Crafting Circular Solutions in Fashion Retail

August 20, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

Join circular-design consultants Lauren B. Fay and Cynthia Power as they discuss the work of brands and retailers that are […]

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Book Talk and Signing: Sustainable Fashion: “What to Wear and Why”

August 20, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

On Monday, Sept. 9, at 5 pm, please join the library in our Special Collections reading room (Room E435) for […]

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illustration of Solariscape, solar curtains designed by Annie Hassan

A Bright Idea from Home Products Development

July 22, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, School of Business & Technology, Students

Home Products Development at FIT is designed for and by the growing home products industry, and its students are encouraged […]

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A Surprising Ingredient Can Turn Cotton Into a Performance Fabric

May 13, 2024 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Cotton, the world’s most popular natural fiber, has a lot to recommend it. It’s lightweight, breathable, absorbent, and biodegradable. But […]

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FIT Invests in Energy-Efficient Infrastructure

April 29, 2024 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

In the fight against climate change, individual action is important, but upgrading infrastructure makes a much larger impact. This spring, […]

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Greenchella: The Sustainability Fair

April 19, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

FIT is celebrating Earth Week 2024 with a Sustainability Fair on the Breezeway! The fair will feature: Trade of Materials: […]

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Bringing Fashion Back to the Farm

March 18, 2024 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability, Top Stories

When Lorenza Wong took on responsibility for the Textile Development and Marketing capstone course, she rewrote it from scratch. Before this […]

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C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin Launch a Sustainable Lifestyle Brand

February 12, 2024 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, Sustainability

Creative Technology and Design professors C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin have launched a lifestyle brand that aims to join urbanwear […]

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FIT Receives Grant to Develop Reusable Face Masks from Plastic Waste

February 5, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability, Top Stories

The worst of the pandemic may be largely over, but the waste from everyone’s face masks isn’t. Now three Textile […]

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Students Redefine Sustainable Luxury Outerwear with The RealReal

January 29, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Featured, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design, Students, Sustainability

Last fall, The RealReal, an online marketplace for authenticated resale luxury goods, partnered with FIT to offer Fashion Design students […]

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SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT

Gwen Sanchirico leans over a drawer of colorful glass petri dishes Building a Biomaterials Reference Library, One Avocado Skin at a Time

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 on hand. Today, in Room C806 of the Feldman Center, FIT researcher Gwen Sanchirico is carrying that spirit of innovation into the future.

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