President Joyce F. Brown will be in conversation with author and fashion designer B Michael for the launch of his book MUSE—Cicely Tyson and Me: A Relationship Forged in Fashion. A reception and book signing will follow. This is an invitation-only event.
Celebrate Black History Month by joining President Joyce F. Brown and our guest panelists for an evening of networking and sharing stories of Black entrepreneurship. Panelists: Isaiah Mikhail Stewart, Creative Lead, ESSENCE Nana Agyemang, Founder, EveryStylishGirl Shelcy Joseph, Editor-in-Chief, NYCXCLOTHES Clarke Peoples, Content Creator and Entrepreneur Following the panel, alumni, students, and panelists will have […]
As a lifelong Beyhive member and Renaissance ticket holder, Assistant Director of Residential Life John Rowell will walk through Beyoncé’s development as an artist and her comfort with her Blackness to exemplify the theory of Nigrescence and will compare that to the spectrum of Black student support. Rowell will hold a series of talks throughout […]
FIT DTech Lab partners with Digital Fashion Week to bring the NYC Digital Fashion Symposium to FIT. Across three cities and in parallel with traditional fashion weeks, Digital Fashion Week is a lens through which we view the future of fashion. Under the three pillars of thought-leadership, innovation and creativity, Digital Fashion Week disrupts the […]
A discussion based on Dr. Melody Li’s new book Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. The book examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-U.S. tensions. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese […]
