Week of Events
Exhibition: Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop — Closes
February 8–April 23, 2023 Special Exhibitions Gallery Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop by examining the roots and history of hip hop fashion from its inception to the present time. This exhibition will explore themes such as the transition of hip […]
Refugee Studies at FIT: A Practical and Pedagogical Roadmap
Refugee Studies at FIT: A Practical and Pedagogical Roadmap
This workshop luncheon brings FIT scholars, educators, and administrators together to consider issues related to forced and voluntary displacement, and how they relate to questions of thinking, teaching, and shaping […]
Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism [Rescheduled]
Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism [Rescheduled]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 2. Find the new listing here. Retail design, fashion merchandising, set design, furniture, packaging, interiors, architecture, fine art rendering... little-known architect and designer Jock Peters, a largely forgotten figure of early Los Angeles modernism, did it all. Professor Christopher Long presents his new book titled Jock Peters, Architecture […]
The Future of Fashion: Judging Day Exhibition 2023
The Future of Fashion: Judging Day Exhibition 2023
From over 200 looks submitted by graduating students in the 2023 class of the Fashion Design BFA program, judges select which looks will appear in The Future of Fashion runway show held May 10. The day after the judges have made their selections, an exhibition of all submitted garments will be on view to the public from 9 […]
FIT Authors Talks: Hilary Davidson: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
FIT Authors Talks: Hilary Davidson: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
Professor Hilary Davidson discusses her book, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings, historic garments, and fashion plates—including many previously unpublished images—this authoritative yet accessible book will help readers visualize the external selves of Austen’s immortal characters as clearly as she wrote of their internal ones. The result […]
Globally Connected @ FIT: Mediatization and Datafication in the Field of Fashion
Globally Connected @ FIT: Mediatization and Datafication in the Field of Fashion
Agnès Rocamora. In this conversation, Dr. Agnès Rocamora will bring mediatization theory in dialogue with critical data studies to look at the idea of the datafication of the field of […]
Navigating Pregnancy and Work
Navigating Pregnancy and Work
Please join CAFAA, Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management's alumni association, for a panel discussion on successfully navigating pregnancy at work, as well as a launch celebration of Stephanie Kramer's book Carry Strong, on Thursday, April 27, in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre at FIT. Moderator Ellen Byron, Deputy Coverage Chief, Corporate News, The Wall Street […]
Fashion Culture: Anna Sui: Fashion Design and Interior Decoration
Fashion Culture: Anna Sui: Fashion Design and Interior Decoration
Photograph by Miguel Flores-Vianna. Fashion designer Anna Sui and MFIT's deputy director Patricia Mears will talk about interior decoration. Best known for her contemporary reimagining of historic textiles and vintage clothing, Sui is also celebrated for her extraordinarily beautiful, self-designed home. Inspired by legendary interior decorators and period styles from Victoriana to Art Nouveau, it […]