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  • Read Threads: Fashion sources for 14th century Europe

      Hi, all! Welcome to a new series. My passion is fashion history before 1700, so I thought it would be fun to write a series on both good and bad fashion history sources. These posts expand upon the FIT Library’s research guide on the subject of fashion history: FIT Library research guide on fashion…

  • Maker Minds event Friday!

    Hi, everyone! This is to remind you that the Library is hosting a Maker Minds event this Friday (tomorrow!) in the Art Resources Lab, 6th floor of the Library. This event is a workshop to teach how to use a motion capture suit and rigging, and the corresponding software. You know you want to! (I…

  • Sketching for Inspiration

    Welcome back, everyone!   This talk features an FIT author! Professor Sharon Rothman will be here to talk about her new book, The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook. In it, Rothman discusses 4 different types of creative journals, each of which feeds the author’s work at a different stage in the development of a fashion line. Her…

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