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Cameras and Action in the City of Lights: The 2017 Paris Seminar Case Study

By Karen Abington (Class of 2018) It should come as no surprise to our alums that the watchword of this year’s Paris Seminar was – drum roll please – creativity.  In discussing fashion, and especially French fashion, we would be remiss if we didn’t touch upon the creative process, and I imagine that this subject was […]

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Hong Kong: Gateway to Asia

By Michael Battista Industry Coordinator to the Global Fashion Management Program Hong Kong is a city that bustles with over 7 million people. Skyscrapers that are achieved with bamboo scaffolding rise from the mountainous terrain of a bay overlooking the South China Sea. Container ships filled with goods destined for the world’s ports dot the horizon. […]

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Teaming in the Global Workplace

By Bob Greene, MS Leadership and Team Development Coach and Consultant Students in the Graduate Fashion Management (GFM) program are developing as leaders who can innovate successfully in the ever-changing global fashion industry. Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders need to be successful not only when problems are routine or primarily technical, but in uncharted territory, where […]

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A Global Learning Laboratory

By Bob Greene, MS Leadership and Team Development Coach and Consultant I’ve had the pleasure for the past several years of facilitating a workshop on building teams for the Graduate Fashion Management (GFM) program during the New York seminar hosted by Fashion Institute of Technology. Students and faculty from schools based in New York, Paris, […]

Hong Kong Seminar 2015: The Connected Chinese Consumer

Within all aspects of Global Fashion Management education—from lecture event to panel discussion to informal conversation—the focus often turns to the demand and purchasing power of the Chinese consumer. According to the Sourcing Journal, China-based consumers’ online spending for American brands in 2015, is seven times higher than in 2014. But while Chinese consumers are […]