2017 Student Awards Ceremony

Students are acknowledged at this annual end-of-year awards ceremony. Departmental awards, SUNY Chancellor’s awards, and FIT Foundation awards will be among those presented. This event is invitation only.  Exact time and location of this event has not been announced. 

2017 School of Graduate Studies Hooding Ceremony

FIT Dining Hall Dubinsky Student Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Master's degree students receive their hoods as symbols of graduation from their programs. This event is invitation only. 

2017 Commencement

Arthur Ashe Stadium USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

The Fashion Institute of Technology will hold its 2017 commencement exercises for all associate, baccalaureate, and master’s degree candidates. Essie Weingarten, the founder of Essie Cosmetics, will speak at the ceremony and receive a State University of New York honorary degree. LL Cool J, the pioneering hip-hop artist otherwise known as James Todd Smith will receive the President’s Award for Creative […]

20th Annual Next Generation Awards

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

The Accessories Design and Jewelry Design programs acknowledge their students with end-of-year awards sponsored and judged by the Accessories Council.

CANCELED: ‘Fresh Dressed’ Documentary Screening and Black History Month Closing Program

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.  The documentary Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of hip-hop/urban fashion and its rise from Southern cotton plantations to the gangs of the 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in between. Supported by rich archival materials and in-depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution of a way […]