{"id":2437,"date":"2012-08-13T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:51:14","slug":"art-designs-sass-brown-appointed-acting-assistant-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/artanddesign\/2012\/08\/13\/art-designs-sass-brown-appointed-acting-assistant-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Art & Design’s Sass Brown Appointed Acting Assistant Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sass\u00a0Brown, our new Acting Assistant Dean, has been appointed to replace Dr. Erika Massaquoi, who left in April. \u00a0Brown is student-conscious, \u00a0eco-conscious,\u00a0\u00a0a dedicated promoter of sustainable fashion, and about to publish her second book on eco fashion and accessories.<\/p>\n

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Acting Assistant Dean Sass Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cShe not only has her heart in the right place but her intelligence and creativity as well,\u201d says Dean Joanne Arbuckle. \u201cAssistant Dean Brown has great knowledge of our fashion programs, and will be an enormous asset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown has been the Resident Director for FIT\u2019s study abroad program in Florence and a full-time professor in the Fashion Design<\/a> department.\u00a0Brown received her BA in fashion design from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design\u00a0\u00a0in the U.K. and her master’s in Global Fashion Management<\/a> from FIT.<\/p>\n

Before entering academia, Brown was a designer with her own signature collection in the U.K. and Canada. She has published papers and spoken around the world on the topic of sustainable design, worked and volunteered in women\u2019s cooperatives in South America, and taught workshops for manufacturers and fashion enterprises throughout South America and China.<\/p>\n

Her first book, \u201cEco Fashion,\u201d has been translated into Italian and Spanish.<\/p>\n

“We’ve moved way beyond organic cotton T-shirts and baggy hemp pants,” she says. “Today, eco fashion must be chic, with materials and production truly sustainable, not only in procurement but also in processing and disposal.”<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: \u00a0Kah Poon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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