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V-Day at FIT

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

FIT joins the V-Day global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day at FIT 2019 presents a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues by the Theater Club. Doors open for an art exhibition at 7:30 pm; show at 8 pm. This event is part of Promoting Healthy Relationships Month. Find more details at fitnyc.edu/healthyrelationships. This event […]

Exhibition: IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive — Closes

Art and Design Gallery Pomerantz Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

February 12–March 5 Professor C.J. Yeh, Communication Design, curates an interdisciplinary exhibition examining the importance of creativity for social impact and inclusion. IMPACT: The Future Is Inclusive is an exhibition about the imagination and its effects on positive social change. Yeh will curate work by students, faculty, and alumni, as well work by an invited artist to […]

Exhibition: The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion — Opens

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

Grenelle-Estévez, evening set, circa 1957, gift of Sylvia Levine. March 5–30, 2019  Gallery FIT The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion explores the legacy of one of the first institutions dedicated to educating fashion industry professionals in New York City. The impact of the school, in operation from 1923 to 1991, will be explored through an introduction […]

Visiting Author Talk: Simeon Marsalis

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

Simeon Marsalis. Photo by Chris Buck. Multimedia writer Simeon Marsalis's first novel, As Lie Is to Grin, focuses on an African-American college student's experience in a predominantly white college. Short-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize in 2017, the novel examines racialized bodies navigating spaces from which they have historically been barred. Incorporating […]

Fashion Culture: ‘Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco’

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

Poster for Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is an electrifying documentary that follows fashion illustrator and FIT alumnus Antonio Lopez from New York to Paris between 1969 and 1973. Interviews with Bill Cunningham and Jessica Lange, archival footage, and Antonio’s own exuberant illustrations tell the story of […]