Tag: Joshua Williams

  • New season of Faces & Places lecture series focuses on impact of gender identity on fashion

    New season of Faces & Places lecture series focuses on impact of gender identity on fashion

    Each semester speakers from the fashion industry, and beyond, discuss creativity and entrepreneurship in the Faces and Places in Fashion lecture series.  This year the emphasis is on gender and how it relates to design creativity from both cultural and functional perspectives. Faces & Places in Fashion is a credit course offered through the School…

  • Ozwald Boateng’s comeback via Skype

    Ozwald Boateng is making another comeback. Or at least another attempt to speak to the FIT community. (Mr. Boateng’s earlier scheduled appearance was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy’s unwanted visit.) This time Boateng’s appearance will be virtual, digitally live from London. A Question and Answer session with Boateng via Skype will follow a screening of…

  • At ELLE.com the experience makes the magazine

    Styles may change, but online content is what’s really on the runway at ELLE.com, one of the most visited online versions of a major fashion publication.  “Magazines aren’t what they were 10 years ago–it’s now an experience,” Keith Pollock, Editorial Director of ELLE.com told students of Faces & Places class last week.  It’s virtual engagement that Pollock and his…

  • Designing like an “anthropologist”–Frank Zambrelli

    “Stop taking offense! It’s o.k. not to take things personally and to design for others.  Design can be approached as an art, or a science.  I liken it to an anthropologist. Both are valuable,” FIT grad and shoe designer (Banfi Zambrelli), Frank Zambrelli told students of Faces & Places class yesterday. Not surprisingly, Zambrelli, according to…

  • Creative directors speak about “voice, vision and narrative”

    An engaging hour’s talk filled with industry experience and trend observation of who, and what, dictates fashion, was held in Katie Murphy Amphitheater on Thursday.  “What Makes a Good Creative Director?” was moderated by Faces & Places instructor Joshua Williams. L-R David Wolfe, Emmett Shine, Piera Gelardi One challenging topic was the response to fashion…