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Playground Detroit had its origin in NYC. How Fashion Designer Paulina Petkoski employed her design skills to help make it happen
It can be easier to be a creative in Detroit, the city where she grew up, says Paulina Petkoski (Fashion Design ’10), but it helps to get a jump-start in New York City. After nearly a decade of working and designing in NYC, she returned to her hometown Detroit in 2014. Petkoski had already co-founded…
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FIT Senior Sarai Maman Wins Competition, Shoots for the Moon
Landing on the moon requires more than technical skill. You also need cooperation, perseverance, creativity and the ability to dream, says Sarai Maman, ’22, a winner of the 27th annual Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Award. Her work is “a perfect showing of what students in the Spatial Experience Design program can do combining…
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Supremely Supima: Alyssa Wardrop!
Recent graduate Alyssa Wardrop has won the 10th annual Supima Design Competition. Her womenswear capstone collection was seen on the runway during Fashion Week yesterday. Art and Design Dean Troy Richards and Fashion Design Chair Eileen Karp were there and captured the moment. “I really got to do what I love doing and put everything…
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The 2012 Fashion Finale
Coco Chanel said that when a woman is well dressed, “you notice the woman,” rather than the clothes. At the BFA fashion show, when the winning designs came the runway, well, we noticed the clothes. And of course we noticed the models as tall as sky-scrapers, and whispered and pointed out the industry stars. “There’s…
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Nothing comes between FIT students and their Calvin
Calvin Klein met with a group of FIT presidential scholars on Wednesday to talk about the then-and-now of the fashion world and what many call the genius behind the Calvin Klein brand. “You’re all special ones, so you really have to do it,” he said to the group of art & design that includes fashion design, as…