On My Mind
The Official Blog of FIT President Joyce F. Brown
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Uvalde
The funerals started this week. There will be 21—21 lives lost in a Texas massacre not long after a mass murder in Buffalo took ten. The numbers mount incessantly: over 1500 people have been killed in more than 270 mass shootings since 2009. As we witness the grief in Uvalde today, it is hard not…
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Karma’s World & FIT
If you—or your children—haven’t yet had an opportunity to tune in to Netflix’s Karma’s World, please do! I think this hit animated series, based on a concept by rapper, actor, producer and entrepreneur Chris “Ludicris” Bridges, will delight you—and certainly inspire any children in your world. This coming-of-age series features 10-year-old Karma Grant, an aspiring…
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FIT: The MIT for the Fashion Industry?
One of FIT’s founders, Morris Ritter, famously said, “What we need is an MIT for the fashion industry.” Seventy-seven years later, we are well on our way. There is, after all, the very successful, ongoing partnership we forged with MIT three years ago to see what could be developed in workshops which bring together their…
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Alber Elbaz, 1961-2021
Has there ever been a more original spirit in the world of fashion than Alber Elbaz? This ebullient designer, whose triumphant collections rejuvenated the moribund House of Lanvin with elegance, grace, and an inimitable wit, loved women and fashion in equal measure—all of which was evident throughout his extraordinary career. His recent death from COVID-19…
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Bambuser and DTech Live
Our D-Tech Lab, an extension of the FIT Center for Innovation, continues to deliver a holistic vision of business in the creative industries, and with student interns, faculty and academic and industry partners, it is developing new local, national and international markets in branding and in technology-driven sustainable production. It is also gaining a glowing…