Tag: commencement

  • Congratulations to FIT’s Class of 2018

    Commencement is my absolute favorite event of the year, and what a pleasure it was to return to Radio City Music Hall for the ceremonies this year. With its gorgeous art deco interior and sweeping scale, it is as elegant—and appropriate—a venue for these milestone celebrations as one can imagine. FIT last conducted commencement ceremonies…

  • Fond Memories of FIT’s 2016 Commencement Ceremonies

    Commencement 2016 was surely the best FIT commencement ever. It was so filled with high spirits that I cannot imagine another having been better. Yet that seems to be what I say—and feel—every year at commencement. And it doesn’t matter that we conduct two ceremonies! Perhaps that is the magic of the occasion itself, one of such optimism and celebration.…

  • Brooke Shields Visits FIT

    A week before commencement, Brooke Shields—one of our commencement speakers this year—visited FIT. I wanted to tell you about this because her visit was almost as exhilarating as her commencement speech. Usually our commencement speakers are content to learn about the college from the materials we send them. But not Ms. Shields. She requested a…

  • Remembering Oscar de la Renta

    What can one possibly add to the abundance of tributes to Oscar de la Renta following his death last month? He was, as WWD declared on its front page, “an American master” and there was not a person who knew him—personally or professionally—who did not laud the elegance, sophistication and romantic beauty of his designs,…

  • A Marriage Proposal at Commencement

    I have attended more commencements in my life as an educator than I can remember. Happy as they are, they sometimes blur in recollection.   However, FIT’s Commencement 2014 offered one moment that I will never forget.  It took place at our morning ceremony while David Hamilton, our student government president, spoke.  David is an energetic…