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  • Hayley returns!

    Rachel Ellner

    Recent Interior design alumna Hayley Park (’13) talked to graduating students of Prof. Susan Forbes’ internship class today about the rewards of hard work. “Focus on the learning process,” she advised. “Take it as a calling rather than a job. When you intern you get a taste of what it’s like and that leads you…

  • Joe Zee reflects on FIT’s graduating fashion design talent

    Rachel Ellner

    “These people…I don’t know who they are, but I know they’ve traveled from four corners of the world to come to FIT.   “They blow me away with their talent, and if that’s what they are doing at the school level…     I can’t wait to see what they do when they actually get…

  • Setting the stage

    Rachel Ellner

    For the Future of Fashion! Catwalk alert: FIT’s Future of Fashion 2014 runway show goes live at 7pm May 1. Watch here: FIT Fashion Show  

  • When poetry and angst meet

    Rachel Ellner

    What happens when poetry, artistic talent and biographical angst meet in Prof. John Nickle’s fifth semester Illustration class? One example is Rebekie Bennington’s mind explosive self-portrait, suggestive of the “agony of sensual chisels,” “lilac shrieks” and the “scarlet bellowings” of E.E. Cummings’ poem “My mind is.” The poem ” says Bennington, “makes references to color and explores how art…

  • The grandeur of Maggie Norris’ couture Easter egg

    Rachel Ellner

    If anyone could design a couture Easter egg, it’s New Orleans born Maggie Norris. Maggie’s Rosebud Corset Egg (giant, bejeweled, and red velvet covered), is inspired by Peter Carl Fabergé’s Imperial Rosebud Egg. There’s no downside as suffered by Fabergé’s last royal customer, Tsar Nicholas II. Maggie’s egg will in fact, benefit two charities. Watch here the hatching of…

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