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Tag: Technical Design

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FIT in 2025: The Year in Photos

December 18, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

As 2025 comes to a close, we look back and marvel at the images that defined a year of discovery, […]

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‘Adapt/Evolve’ Showcases the Power of Inclusive Design

September 22, 2025 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, Diversity, Featured, School of Art & Design

The FIT Art and Design Gallery recently opened Adapt/Evolve, a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring adaptive and inclusive design across fashion, interior, […]

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Alum Belania Daley Brings BCD Planet to New Season of ‘Project Runway’

July 30, 2025 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, Top Stories

The legacy of the Project Runway reality TV show is deeply intertwined with FIT, with alumni serving as judges, contestants, […]

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Student-Faculty Duo Creates Compostable Leather Alternative

April 21, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

For the capstone project in Technical Design this spring, graduating students were asked to create an innovative garment. Isabella Estevez, […]

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Graduate Wins Prize for Outfit Made of Pineapple-Leaf Fabric

November 5, 2019 Alex Joseph College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

FIT crushed the competition recently in a contest for Ideation 2019, a conference arranged by the software company Gerber. Of […]

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Joy Kim

September 9, 2019 Julianna Dow Alumni, alumni notes, Hue Magazine

Joy (Juyeon) Kim, Technical Design, Fashion Design ’15, put on an exhibition of nine upcycled, high-tech garments in Tribeca in […]

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Deborah Beard at PI Conference

Deborah Beard Presents at Product Innovation Conference

July 16, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

On June 18, Deborah Beard, associate chair, Technical Design, was a lecturer at the Product Innovation (PI) Apparel New York […]

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Deborah Beard Gives Presentations and Judges Student Work in China

June 27, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

In early June, Deborah Beard, chair, Technical Design, was invited to Xi’an Polytechnic University to be a judge at its lingerie […]

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Graduating Student Solves a Wedding Dress Dilemma

June 19, 2019 Julianna Dow School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

In China, the traditional wedding gown is a red silk qipao, a body-hugging dress. In the West, white gowns with […]

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Surfers, Rejoice! A New High-Tech, Fashion-Forward Wetsuit

May 13, 2019 Julianna Dow School of Business & Technology, Top Stories

There’s no reason a surfer shouldn’t look stylish while shredding waves. Most full-body wetsuits, however, are drab and, because they’re […]

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Fresh off One Battle After Another‘s Oscar win for Best Picture, we’re celebrating one of its standout stars: FIT Fashion Merchandising Management alumna Shayna McHayle, also known as Junglepussy, also known as JP. Check out our profile of the alum in FIT’s magazine, Hue.

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