Week of Events
Designing Adaptive Fashion
Designing Adaptive Fashion
Adaptive fashion takes front row in a virtual panel discussion with three innovative professionals focusing on adaptive design. Speakers are Izzy Camilleri, Keith Kirkland, and Stephanie Thomas. Moderated by Carli Spina, Head of Research and Instructional Services, Gladys Marcus Library This virtual event is free and open to the public; REGISTER HERE.
World Affairs Lecture Series: Inequality Conflict and Peace: Emerging Trends in a Post-Pandemic Africa
World Affairs Lecture Series: Inequality Conflict and Peace: Emerging Trends in a Post-Pandemic Africa
The Department of Social Sciences’ World Affairs Lecture Series fulfills FIT’s mission to foster an understanding of diverse cultures and politics within the international as well as domestic perspectives. It also embraces, supports, and expands upon the president’s campuswide initiative on civility. This virtual lecture will be on: Emerging Trends in a Post-Pandemic Africa. Speaker: […]
Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry
Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry
Paolo Volonté, Author of Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies (2021), in conversation with FIT Professor Yuni Kawamura. The discussion will revolve around an analysis of the contentious issue of the tyranny of slenderness in fashion. In closely examining the thin ideal and the segregation of fatness in the fashion system, and focusing […]