Week of Events
Exhibition: The Unwearable Collection — Opens
September 18–October 15, 2023 Art and Design Gallery The FIT Foundation, in partnership with the FIT DTech Lab, presents the evolution of The Unwearable Collection by Boehringer Ingelheim: pieces that are impossible to wear and impossible to ignore. The Unwearable Collection Exhibition—inclusive of "Uncertainty," the fifth piece designed by FIT’s Fashion Design MFA students Natalia […]
Designed to Deliver: The 2023 International Trade and Marketing Forum
Designed to Deliver: The 2023 International Trade and Marketing Forum
The Department of International Trade and Marketing (ITM) invites the FIT community to attend ITM Day on Sept. 18 in the John E. Reeves Great Hall. With over 10 speakers, […]
Language Exchange
Language Exchange
Join us in the Writing and Speaking Studio for friendly conversation, cultural exchange, and language practice (Italian, English, French, Spanish, Tamil, etc.). Languages used will depend on participants in attendance. […]
Language Exchange
Language Exchange
Join us in the Writing and Speaking Studio for friendly conversation, cultural exchange, and language practice (Italian, English, French, Spanish, Tamil, etc.). Languages used will depend on participants in attendance. […]
FIT Authors Talks: Yuniya Kawamura on Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Post Modern Digital Era
FIT Authors Talks: Yuniya Kawamura on Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Post Modern Digital Era
In this virtual talk Professor Yuniya Kawamura discusses her book Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era. The third edition of Fashion-ology offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to […]
Film Screening: ‘Bayard & Me’ and ‘Brother Outsider’ With Walter Naegle
Film Screening: ‘Bayard & Me’ and ‘Brother Outsider’ With Walter Naegle
Attend this documentary double feature about Bayard Rustin, who taught nonviolent resistance to Martin Luther King, Jr. and organized the March on Washington. Showing first is the short film Bayard & Me, about Rustin’s relationship with his partner Walter Naegle, and then Brother Outsider, a full-length documentary about Rustin’s life. Followed by an in-person Q&A […]