Category: Fabric Styling

  • About Love: Tiffany, Beyonce, Jay-Z, a Yellow Diamond and FIT Alums

    As any good campaign should, Tiffany & Co’s attempt to appeal to younger potential customers with its “About Love” campaign lit up both the fashion press and mainstream media last month. Beyoncé is the first Black woman to wear the hypnotically yellow Tiffany Diamond in public since its 1878 acquisition by the jeweler. The campaign…

  • Samuel Tannenbaum: Modernity with a Shaker Sensibility

    In a post-post-modern era of computer-aided design and retro-ornate popularity, what is old can be startlingly and gorgeously new. Samuel Tannenbaum, Textile Surface Design, ’19, draws on his small town roots and his aptitude for textile design and crafting, to create original fabric designs and fabric-based artwork.  His work has a distinctive, elegantly spare, Shaker…

  • A Passage to India 20 Feet at a Time

    There was a special rapport and intimacy shared at the recent fabric and embroidery workshops led by Dr. Vaddi Sarvani from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Hyderbad, India. The visiting professor spent a week teaching saree draping and Indian embroideries to Fashion Design and Textile Surface Design students and faculty.  “Her knowledge was…

  • Chelsea Exploration for Textile Inspiration

    Fabric Styling BFA students come from a variety of majors and not all have the painting experience that Professor Sara Petitt finds important for creating original fabric designs. Students painting from inspiration cards before translating to Bristol paper and digital scanning “I want students to be able to scan painted and drawn images into the…