Textile Development and Marketing

Model in an elaborate white dress walking toward an audience in a glass-walled room

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, […]

Whitney Crutchfield Named a SUNY Sustainability Faculty Fellow

October 15, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, SUNY, Sustainability

Whitney Crutchfield, assistant professor of Textile Development and Marketing in FIT’s Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, […]

Professor and student creating a redding material in a beaker

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, […]

A Greener Tomorrow: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Sustainability

November 15, 2024 Laura Hatmaker

Students, have you ever heard your professor say “It will be your generation’s job to fix what our generation caused”? […]

Students feeling mohair yarn in a laboratory setting

Slow Fashion Capstone Project Highlights Four Sustainable Fibers

May 28, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

The 33 students who developed this year’s Textile Development and Marketing capstone project, titled “Farm to Fabric,” describe it […]

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 […]

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 […]

Graphical abstract from Sarkar, Islam, and Gao's EPA grant

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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Preeti Arya Trains Major Textile Testing Firm

November 15, 2023 Jonathan Vatner Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Business & Technology

On Oct. 19, Preeti Arya, assistant professor of Textile Development and Marketing (TDM), trained 18 employees from Vartest, a New […]

Faculty Collaborate on Bioleather Accessories

September 11, 2023 Jonathan Vatner Faculty/Staff, Innovation, Sustainability, Top Stories

Preeti Arya, Textile Development and Marketing, has developed a bio-based, biodegradable textile using a combination of lab-grown materials including SCOBY […]