Civility Week 2022

October 11–14 The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosts Civility Week, a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of FIT’s civility initiative. The initiative is aimed at engaging our community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning in a higher education environment. FIT encourages our community to behave […]

Exhibition: Crafting Change — Closes

Gallery FIT, The Museum at FIT Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

Image: KÙR x BLG. September 17–October 16, 2022 Gallery FIT The work of FIT alumni and faculty takes center stage in the exhibition Crafting Change. Organized by the Textile/Surface Design Department in conjunction with New York Textile Month, the works featured in Crafting Change use long-established techniques in a modern context to highlight the potential for promoting connection, […]

Faces and Places in Fashion: Marci Zaroff

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

Marci Zaroff, founder, CEO, and chairwoman of EcoFashion Corp, will be the guest at this week’s Faces and Places in Fashion—a special kickoff to Sustainability Awareness Week. The Faces and Places in Fashion lecture series is a forum for prominent fashion professionals to discuss their trade, experience, and perspective on the business. Find more details […]

The Evolution of Adaptive Fashion

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with three disability advocates about adaptive fashion, what they look for in designs, their hopes for the future of the fashion industry, and more. Our speakers represent a range of experiences and roles around adaptive fashion. Keah Brown is an author, actress, journalist and screenwriter, as well as […]

Fashion Culture Event: Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look

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

Dior and His Decorators is the first book devoted to the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic drawing on the refined traditions of […]