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POSTPONED: 14th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Innovation to Impact

POSTPONED April 14 and 15, 2020 The Sustainability Council at FIT hosts a Sustainable Business and Design Conference each spring. The event provides a platform for collaboration and discussion throughout the creative industries, highlighting advances in sustainable design and thought leadership. Environmental and social challenges and potential solutions are explored through innovative student projects, cross-institutional research, and […]

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 meetings of the FIT Board of Trustees and FIT Student Housing Corporation Board will be held remotely by conference call on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Public session: 9:30 am Executive session: 11:15 am (closed the the public) Live public access available: fitnyc.edu/boardmeetings This event is open to the public.

Online Event: Fern Mallis in Conversation with Dana Thomas

Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas has traveled the globe to discover the visionaries who are propelling the industry toward a more positive future. These designers and companies are striving to reclaim traditional craft and launch cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion. In this webinar, industry icon and creator of New York Fashion Week Fern Mallis will […]

Hue Live Online Event: Boys Don’t Knit? A Conversation with Josh Bennett

The first-ever Hue Live event—being held online through Webex—Josh Bennett will discuss his career with Hue Managing Editor Alex Joseph. Josh Bennett, Menswear '12, designs a hand-knitted luxury sweater collection sold at Bergdorf Goodman, and partnered with Marvel to create a limited-edition collection Marvel x Josh Bennett. He was the men’s sweater designer at Tommy […]

POSTPONED: Fashion Culture: Fashion Victims: Dressing Up the Death Drive

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

Juergen Teller’s Nackt auf Sigmund Freuds Couch (Naked on Sigmund Freud’s Couch) (2006). POSTPONED If looks can kill, who is the victim in fashion? Scholars Patricia Gherovici and Jamieson Webster will engage in psychoanalytic readings of fashion. They will analyze fashion impulses from the phallic charm of Gucci to the suicide of Alexander McQueen, from […]