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  • Creative directors speak about “voice, vision and narrative”

    Rachel Ellner

    An engaging hour’s talk filled with industry experience and trend observation of who, and what, dictates fashion, was held in Katie Murphy Amphitheater on Thursday.  “What Makes a Good Creative Director?” was moderated by Faces & Places instructor Joshua Williams. L-R David Wolfe, Emmett Shine, Piera Gelardi One challenging topic was the response to fashion…

  • Suprema Jusil!

    Rachel Ellner

    Jusil Carroll,  newly minted FIT fashion design grad, won the Supima Design Competition yesterday with a collection the department’s Assistant Chair Steven Stipelman called “simply breathtaking.” Supima, an organization that promotes American Prima cotton, teamed up the leading design schools, which in turn nominated graduating seniors to be finalists in the competition. “This was my first fashion show, I…

  • What Anne Kong Did on Her Summer Vacation

    Rachel Ellner

    Professor Kong made good use of the City this summer, especially the City’s landmarks and statues. The Visual Presentation and Design professor created 15  giant Skullcandy Aviator headphones for a guerrilla marketing advertising campaign that was to announce the company going public.  It went beyond the normal product shot–way beyond. Do you need a swelled head…

  • Tara in Paris and Italy

    Rachel Ellner

    To preserve and make public her memories of  Paris and Italy this summer, Tara Ricci, 1 of 17 students in Professor Markus’s CL131 class, filled her travel blog with engaging posts and photos taken with a point-and-shoot camera. Tara’s blog, Design Project: France & Italy, records a tour de fashion experience par excellence. “It was astonishing to…

  • Justyna’s summer exploration

    Rachel Ellner

    Before going on vacation to Florida last month, photography student Justyna Fijalska,  stuck a pink dress with a tail of bright colors in her suitcase. It was a “what-the-heck” passing thought–“maybe I’ll use it, maybe I won’t,” she recalls.  Well, she got some spectacular wear out of it. “Self-Portrait” Justyna Fijalska in Destin, FL “You…

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