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Event Series Sustainability Awareness Week

Sustainability Awareness Week

Various locations on campus Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission. During this year's Sustainability Awareness Week, October 1 to 5, the FIT community will learn about and experience some of the recent developments in this arena. The week's events, held at different locations on campus, include: A History of Sustainable Fashion: a discussion with Museum at FIT curator Colleen […]

FIT Board of Trustees Meeting

Robert Lagary Board Room Marvin Feldman Center, Ninth Floor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City , NY, United States

The FIT Board of Trustees holds its October meeting. For more information, contact the Office of the President, (212) 217-4000. This event is open to the public.

A Conversation About Human Trafficking

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

The Campus Anti-Violence Education Group hosts a session on human trafficking, a human rights issue that impacts a number of U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals including Goal No. 5: Gender Equality, and Goal No. 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. Featured panelists will provide an overview of what is happening with forced labor, sex trafficking, and related issues and how […]

Scents and Sensibilities: A Workshop on Fragrance in Poetry with Moira Egan

Pomerantz Center, Room D211 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

This hands- and nose-on workshop will explore techniques that can be used to conjure the intensely evocative (yet vastly underrepresented) sense of smell. The most ephemeral of the senses, scent […]

Fashion Culture: ‘Proust’s Duchess’ with Caroline Weber

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

Cover of Proust’s Duchess, courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf. Author Caroline Weber takes us into the daily lives of three women who were superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society, “paragons of elegance, nobility, and style.” Behind the glamour, they endured loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless marriages, yet inspired novelist Marcel Proust to heights of […]