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Beyond GFM: PhD Candidacy

By Katharine Dorny Program Coordinator, Global Fashion Management One of the most frequent questions applicants ask about the Global Fashion Management program is what graduates do with their new skills after completing the program.  The answer is as varied as graduates’ individual circumstances and career goals. They can continue at their current jobs and earn […]

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A New Partnership: CENTRO Mexico City

By Katharine Dorny Program Coordinator, Global Fashion Management In the Fall of 2019, Global Fashion Management at FIT officially marked the beginning of our partnership with CENTRO in Mexico City by welcoming fourteen students, along with two of their professors, from the inaugural CENTRO cohort to the New York Seminar in September.  In CENTRO’s joining […]

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Notes from the Field: GFM Alumna Uses Her Expertise to Assist FEMA Efforts

CC Salonga, GFM class of 2020, joined the program from a career as a U.S. Navy officer where she specialized in logistics and inventory management for the Defense Department. She entered GFM with an interest in retail operations and will continue her studies in the fall at Iowa State University’s doctoral program in the department […]

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The Italian Job: Luxury at the Source. A Journey up the Supply Stream from a Boutique in Paris to a Specialty Yarn Producer in Florence

By Michael Battista Industry Coordinator to the Global Fashion Management Program The apparel and fashion industry is complex and multifarious. With variables steeped in aesthetic and material culture that both affect and lie at the mercy of increasingly unpredictable and unstable economic and political forces, there are many learning opportunities to be had. In the case […]

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Different Worlds: Exploring the Fashion Systems of France and Italy

By Pamela Ellsworth Chair, Global Fashion Management GFM Seminar: April, 2018 This year’s Paris seminar was devoted to an understanding of the professional organizations established to support France’s legendary fashion industry. In addition, the multicultural team assignment was created to provide a deeper analysis of the design inspiration of current couture members. Fascinated as we […]