HI TIGERS!
In the upcoming months I will be graduating from the Fashion Design Associates program of FIT! Now, for me, it will be a little different from most students graduating back in NYC. From illustration projects, to garments, to final portfolios, each detail is different from NYC’s program.
Over the next posts I will be sharing some of the different projects, critiques, and general idea of how classes run here in FIT in Florence.
For our AAS Final Exhibition we were given the challenge of gathering our inspiration from the Stibbert Museum in Florence. The museum was created by Frederick Stibbert, originally his home, he collected great amounts of treasures from all over the world. His passion for arms and armour show through the different collections. On display you can observe European, Islamic and Japanese armory as well as his other interests for things such as costumes, instruments, paintings, sculptures, etc.
This semester we based our projects on the Stibbert museum. From two illustration projects, to two garments, to research in different classes about the history of the museum and general world events at the time. All for the understanding of what our concepts should represent.
It has been a challenge trying to juggle all this and other classes, but, slowly, my classmates and I have found great ways to navigate through the semester!
In the next post, I will go into detail in explaining different parts of projects and how they all come together for the final exhibition.
Ciao, Maria