Tag: Sass Brown

  • Goodbye Sass!

    “The next picture I send you I’ll be on a camel” The associate dean (and for five months our interim dean) of the School of Art and Design has left after 17 years at FIT for a warmer… much warmer…clime, in a city with really tall buildings and great high-fashion shopping malls and 24-hour air…

  • Dean Arbuckle on Simone Cipriani & The Hand of Fashion series

    “We’re so excited to have forged this collaboration with Simone Cipriani and the Ethical Fashion Initiative,” said Dean Joanne Arbuckle following Cipriani’s talk last night with Nina Braga, Director of Institoe E. “His discussions with renowned speakers address critical aspects of design, projection and social responsibility.” Cipriani heads the Ethical Fashion Initiative, a flagship program of…

  • A book fair for devotees of art and design

    A book fair for devotees of art and design

    Last weekend’s Designers and Books Fair brought a capacity crowd of students, faculty, and a great many other design devotees for book browsing and presentations.  It was a star-studded Art and Design School affair. The Who’s Who and the Who‐Will be Who’s of the publishing design world were in attendance. Attendees came to leaf through and…

  • Paul Dillinger of Levi Strauss kicks off Summer Sustainability Institute

    Acting Associate Dean Sass Brown welcomed three dozen industry members to the second annual Sustainability and Textiles Summer Institute June 8. The four-day program introduces designers and others from around the world to practical ways of minimizing the industry’s carbon footprint. The Institute began with Paul Dillinger, Head of Global Product Innovation at Levis Strauss &…

  • Fine arts photographer crosses over, fashionably

    Jordan Tiberio faces a type of conundrum not unfamiliar to students who fully explore their craft: “I won a fashion shooting contest, but I’m a fine arts photographer,” says the recent winner of the Western Digital (WD) Fashion Walk. “I’m used to taking things from memories and my past and recreating them in an artistic manner.…