FIT College Signing Day 2021
#FITWelcome to the incoming class of fall 2021
Hue Live: What Is Mexican Fashion? With Museum at FIT curator Tanya Melendez-Escalante ’04
Stay Safe for the Holidays!
Many thanks to COTERIE for including our students in their FIT Future of Fashion 2020 Showcase! Learn more about the online marketplace here: https://bit.ly/31NunAs
New Issue of Hue!
How will the pandemic change the fashion business? As the industry continues to evolve in our new landscape, FIT’s experts weigh in and predict its future. Read the full story now in the newest issue of Hue magazine. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3nMRAwe
🎥: Rachael Park, Communication Design ’12
TODAY is the final day to register to vote in New York for the upcoming election! 📮 Visit our website to sign up using TurboVote. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/FITVotes
🎥: Brit Shaked '20
Hue Live! with co-founder and creative director of House of Yes Kae Burkee
House of Yes Kae Burke
Supima Design Competition: Jenny Feng '20
Best of luck to Jenny Feng ‘20 as she competes in the 13th annual Supima Design Competition on Thursday, September 10, at 3pm! Watch the live show here: https://bit.ly/3gOvBjA
Are Face Masks Fashion?
Masks are a regular feature of pandemic life, and we might be wearing them for many seasons to come.
Where does function end and fashion begin? Hue magazine interviewed alumni designers, curators from the Museum at FIT, a journalist, and an accessories professor to get the scoop on face mask style. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2EQp6Q2
One Minute Stories: Faculty Member Lauren Zodel
As FIT’s 75th anniversary year ends, we’re taking a moment to celebrate our community’s extraordinary achievements in creating positive change for a better future. In this challenging year, we are working toward positive change for FIT’s future.
In a collaboration with Montefiore Hospital, faculty members Barbara Seggio and Lauren Zodel created “baby slips,” a garment that helps prevent new mothers from dropping their babies. FIT received its first patent in November 2019.
(Note: Video was created in 2019)
One Minute Stories: Lucy Chen, Fashion Design ‘19
For FIT’s 75th anniversary, we’ve created a series of one-minute videos that together encapsulate the college's innovative, forward-looking people and projects that sit at the intersection of science and design.
Lucy Chen, Fashion Design '19, studied the 3D fashion design software Browzwear in FIT’s Infor/DTech Lab; later, she got a job as a 3D materials librarian with Browzwear. #FITCelebrates75
One Minute Stories: Caitlin Robbins, Technical Design ’16
Today, on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the American with Disabilities Act, we are featuring two FIT grads and their phenomenal work to create wearable designs for people with disabilities.
Caitlin Robbins, Technical Design ’16, created clothes for her father, who has ALS and is in a wheelchair, for her capstone project. She’s now a designer for Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Line.
One Minute Stories: Keith Kirkland, Accessories Design '10
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed into law on July 26, 1990, prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life.
In honor of this landmark decision, we are sharing videos from two FIT grads who have designed inspiring projects to create wearable designs for people with disabilities.
Alumnus Keith Kirkland, Accessories Design ‘10, helped develop a watch that uses haptic (touch) technology to help a blind man run the TCS New York City Marathon.
WWD: Inside FIT’s Class of 2020 Graduate Collections
Take a look at the thesis collections of Fashion Design BFA graduates Elle Klein, Yajie Niu, Sanmati Shetty, and Annette Stone for WWD. Their designs will be included online as part of FIT's 2020 Future of Fashion.
Video courtesy of Misty White Sidell and Phoebe Bradford from WWD.
Grad Week Celebration 2020 Finale Recap
Here’s to the Class of 2020! 🎓 We wish you much happiness and boundless success in your future. #FITGrad
FIT's Virtual Graduating Student Celebration Sneak Peek
We're continuing to celebrate grads this week! On Thursday, May 21, check back for a full video featuring the FIT community including a special message from Fashion Design alumnus Michael Kors.
Congrats Class of 2020!
Now more than ever, we miss our 2020 grads and the opportunity to celebrate their achievements—together, in person.
🎊 Distance won’t stop us from bringing our pride and enthusiasm to FIT grads across the globe! 🎊 Join us on May 18-21 for a virtual graduation celebration.
We look forward to your participation across the amazing FIT community. Newly accepted students: That means you, too!
Check back here on Monday, May 18 for an announcement about our virtual activities. #FITGrad
A Message of Encouragement from FIT Faculty
We asked FIT faculty, “What’s your message to our students right now?” Their answers, composed of praise, encouragement, and hope, remind us to stay optimistic in this challenging time.
FIT faculty, if you have a message to share, please email Alexander Joseph, Hue magazine’s managing editor, at [email protected]. #unconventionalminds
Congrats to FIT's Fashion Design MFA first graduating class on their inaugural fashion show at Pier59 Studios last Friday, February 7!
The show marks a milestone for us during our 75th anniversary as this is the first time students are presenting their own show at New York Fashion Week.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/37end8f
FIT Celebrates 75
In 1944, visionaries Max Meyer and Dr. Mortimer C. Ritter created FIT, the first college devoted to the apparel industry. This year, the college reached its 75th anniversary, and we’re celebrating!
Celebrate with us at our commemorative website, 75.fitnyc.edu. #fitcelebrates75
Happy Holidays from FIT! The college will be closed starting Tuesday, December 24, 2019 through Wednesday, January 1, 2020, and will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2020. ☃️
Happy #Diwali! 🎉
FIT’s Indian Cultural Society commenced their celebration of the Hindu New Year by creating Rangoli, an art form in which patterns are made on the floor using colored rice, dry flour, colored sand, or flower petals.
Civility Week 2019
The second annual Civility Week begins today through Friday, October 25!
FIT's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is hosting a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of engaging the college community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning. Visit our website to learn more: http://bit.ly/2Vc8dDF
Disney on Broadway x FIT | Broadway Inspirational Voices
Enjoy this recap from Disney on Broadway x FIT's exhibition opening reception! 💫 A huge thank you to our guests and Disney on Broadway’s leading stars for attending.
Have you stopped by to see the designs? The exhibition is free and open daily to the public through Sunday, October 13 at the Pomerantz Center.
Special shout-out to Broadway Inspirational Voices for joining us to celebrate the opening!
#TechTuesday: When FIT School of Art and Design received a state-of-the-art digital embroidery machine as part of a major 25-machine donation from Brother Sews, the Hue team tested it out for the summer 2019 cover.
The final result, stitched on the Brother PR1050X, has 29 colors and 155,183 stitches, took five hours of continuous sewing to create. The cover design features FIT alum Anna Forde, International Trade and Marketing '18. Read the current issue here: http://bit.ly/2njBKhu
Disney on Broadway x FIT | Strahan, Sara and Keke
ICYMI: Watch as ten FIT students present their contemporary designs of Disney on Broadway's leading female characters on Strahan, Sara and Keke!
We’re LIVE with FIT’s 2019-2020 Common Read author, Lesley Nneka Arimah. Arimah is the author of “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” and is in conversation with FIT student, Mariah Alvira. Learn more about this year’s Common Read here: http://bit.ly/2YMT7bI
Thaddeus Coates
Meet Thaddeus Coates, Advertising Design '20. Read our profile on Thaddeus and check out the new issue of Hue Magazine at hue.fitnyc.edu
