The ARTSpeak Lecture Series hosts Naudline Pierre in conversation with curator Legacy Russell. Pierre is the Studio Museum in Harlem's artist in residence and Legacy Russell is the museum's associate curator of exhibitions. The central subject of Naudline Pierre's paintings serves as an alter ego, an unearthly representation rendered in a spectrum of colors. As […]

Courtesy of Rizzoli. Join author, fashion commentator, and judge on NBC's Emmy-nominated show Making It Simon Doonan and journalist and author Amy Fine Collins in conversation as they present her latest book, The International Best-Dressed List: The Official Story. Doonan and Fine Collins will discuss how the “Best-Dressed List” is reflective of current society. Organized in collaboration with FIT’s School […]

NYCB ballerina Lauren Lovette in Behnaz Sarafpour’s 2003 tulle and brocaded evening dress. Photograph by Isabel Magowan. Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse will be The Museum at FIT’s 23rd academic symposium. The one-day event will explore the ways in which twentieth-century ballerinas and their glamorous, romantic costumes profoundly inspired modern fashion. Speakers will include Lynn Garafola, professor […]