The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT held its annual luncheon on Wednesday, September 7th, honoring Thom Browne with the 2017 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion! The luncheon raised $937,000, with all proceeds benefiting The Museum at FIT. This is the second-highest-grossing luncheon for the museum. President Joyce F. Brown of FIT welcomed an audience of 500 …
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Vote AlgiKnit Team in “Chasing Genius” Competition
Hi all, I hope your semester has been productive thus far! To keep the new-semester momentum rolling, help FIT’s Team AlgiKnit win National Geographic’s Chasing Genius Challenge! Team AlgiKnit has been selected as a finalist in the National Geographic Chasing Genius Challenge for creating sustainable textile materials. WOO! They are the proud winners of the 2016’s Biodesign …
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Art Market Alum Teaches to Inmates
Lydia Barry Kutko, Art Market MA ’09, held an event at Blick Art Materials this past June on Bond Street in Manhattan to raise awareness for Reframe, her adult education program for inmates on Rikers Island. Store visitors decorated muslin tote bags printed with the Reframe logo. Some participants also screen-printed onto the bags a work of …
FIT Online Beauty Program
BIG BEAUTY NEWS! FIT, in partnership with Allure magazine and Qubed Education, an online education provider, is launching Beauty Industry Essentials, the first-ever online non-credit certificate program to deliver an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted careers in the $265 billion global beauty industry. The program is fully online and self-paced, with rolling admissions, to provide maximum flexibility for …
Makeup Meets Art
Need some inspiration to bring your art work to life? Alumnus Roger Cabello, FIT ’85, slathers, dollops, swirls, and dabs cosmetics into abstract masterpieces. The Peruvian-born Photography grad has made a career of shooting all kinds of cosmetics—foundation, lip gloss, shampoo, nail color—in blobs, crumbles, swirls, and smears. While working for Allure magazine, he perfected the …