Tag: menswear

  • How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Fashion Journey

    Fashion designers from all over the world get their start at FIT. Many come back to learn even more skills, to stay on the cutting edge of fashion design and development. FIT has concentrations in menswear or womenswear. Whether you’ve been creating your own fashions since you were a tiny tot or just decided yesterday you were meant to…

  • Instructor Spotlight: Daniel DeMatteo

    Daniel Matteo is a menswear designer whose work has spanned from Nicole Miller to his own clothing brand, Destino Vero. He is a graduate of the FIT Menswear Design program. Despite no previous apparel experience, he quickly moved to the top of his class and was hired by Nicole Miller while still attending FIT. For over…

  • Art of the In-Between

    This week, I went to the new fashion exhibit, Art of the In-Between, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit showed work by fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons, which translates to “as the boys”. Rei Kawakubo studied fine arts and aesthetics at Keio University in Tokyo, but she does not…

  • Introducing Precollege Blogger: Ella!

    I am a New Yorker through and through. I love the city and hope to live here once I graduate from college. New York is a great place for people watching – yes, I am the person that stares for just a little too long on the subway. I observe what people wear as well…

  • The Working Man

    Menswear, particularly men’s street wear, is something I find very interesting. I like looking at men and seeing the way they dress and what looks good on them. Construction workers in particular are a whole interesting group that deserve more attention than they get. They are gritty and dirty and real. Their clothes are a…

  • Congratulations Noah!

    CONGRATULATIONS TO NOAH THOMAS WHO WAS JUST ACCEPTED TO FIT THIS FALL 2014 FOR Menswear! Courses taken in Precollege Programs include: HAR 016  Creating the Fashion Figure HMW 157  Introduction to Menswear Sewing Were you accepted to FIT this fall too? We’d love to feature you on the blog as well! Email: [email protected] for more…