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Exhibition: Threads of Bondage, Invisibility, and Style Influence: Hidden African American Contributions to American Couture (Revisited) — Closes

Dubinsky Student Center, Fourth Floor Corridor Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

February 11–March 31 It is estimated that between 1525 and 1866 some 12.5 to 15 million African men, women, and children were violently forced from Western and Central Africa into brutal captivity to provide labor for the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 450,000 of the 10.5 million who survived the overseas voyages were sent to North America […]

The Clothesline Project

The Clothesline Project

Dubinsky Student Center Lobby Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

FIT supports the Clothesline Project, a visual display that bears witness to the relationship violence. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with shirts; each shirt is decorated to represent a particular person’s experience, by the survivor themselves or by someone who cares about them. You can view this public display throughout the month of April […]

World Affairs Lecture Series: Yemen’s War: Ignored or Forgotten?

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

Sama’a Al-Hamdani will discuss the war in Yemen at this World Affairs Lecture, moderated by Yasemin Celik Levine, director of the Presidential Scholars Program. Al-Hamdani is a visiting fellow at Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and director of the Yemen Cultural Institute for Heritage and the Arts. The Department of Social Sciences’ World […]

Fashion Culture: ‘Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era’ with Kimberly Alexander

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

Cover of Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Join author Kimberly S. Alexander for a presentation of Treasures Afoot, her intriguing new book that interweaves biography and material culture with full-color photographs to tell how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the eighteenth century. Alexander traces […]

FIT Authors: Sharon Rothman

Gladys Marcus Library, Goodman Resource Center, Room E435 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

At this FIT Authors event, Assistant Professor Sharon Rothman talks about her book The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook. The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook is a step-by-step guide to making and using sketchbooks as an experimental design lab to visually explain your design ideas. Three distinct types of sketchbook, each representing a different phase in the design process, evolve […]