Monica Phromsavanh, founder of Equal Hands, will be the guest at this week’s Faces and Places in Fashion. 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 and the full fall schedule on the Faces and Places […]

Learn the basic origami techniques and folds that will allow you to expand your skills into mastering any origami form. We'll also discuss origami's applications across many different industries including fashion, packaging design and tech. This event is for the FIT community only. 

Join us for our last virtual FIT Authors talk of the semester! Art Market Studies professor Alexandra Schwartz reads from her book, Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art. Chronicling contemporary art’s engagement with costume, Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art shows how visual artists around the globe are using garments to examine issues of subjectivity, identity and difference. […]

Image courtesy of Misa Hylton. Join leading celebrity stylist Misa Hylton in conversation with FIT professor Elena Romero, co-curator of the upcoming MFIT exhibition Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style. Hylton is acclaimed for creating iconic looks such as the purple pastie-and-pantsuit ensemble worn by Lil' Kim at MTV's 1999 Video […]

The Department of Fashion and Textile Studies will hold an event for faculty member Sonya Abrego to celebrate the release of her new book, Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture, published by Bloomsbury. From the Bloomsbury press release: By analysing well-known and rarely considered western manufacturers, Westernwear revises the common perception that fashionable innovation came […]