October 21–November 21, 2019 This exhibition of custom-made T-shirts created by Fashion Business Management students provides them with the opportunity to express the speak from the heart on topics that are important to them. This exhibition is open to the FIT community only; see an online gallery of this work here.
Professor Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz of Teachers College, Columbia University will be the keynote speaker for the opening of Black History Month. The national theme for Black History Month is African Americans and the Vote. For more information on the Diversity Council and FIT’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, visit fitnyc.edu/diversity. This event is for the FIT […]
The documentary Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of hip-hop/urban fashion and its rise from Southern cotton plantations to the gangs of the 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in between. Supported by rich archival materials and in-depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution of a way of life—and the outsiders who studied […]
Piper Anderson, founder and president of Create Forward, will be the keynote speaker for the opening of Black History Month. The national theme for Black History Month is The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. The program will begin with opening remarks from FIT President Joyce F. Brown at 12:30. Anderson's talk will begin at […]
Structural racism—the normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative chronic adverse outcomes for people of color—is the main driver of racial inequality in America […]
