Category: Business and Technology
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Summer Live 2017: Week 2
I used to think there was nothing as much fun as scoring a new makeup that just came out. How many of you agree with me about that sport? Well, it’s even more fun if you understand the history of cosmetics and how it evolved. This week my partner and I researched the history of bronzers. They became very…
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Beyond the Classroom
Many of my classmates would agree, one of our favorite parts of our time here at FIT is the real life experiences and interactive lessons. Sitting in a room for four hours can get a little tiring but when you have such a great class and professor like mine who always urges us to learn hands-on, it goes by…
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Fashion Forecasting: Seeing into the Future
Have you ever wondered who decides that olive is the “color of the season”? Or who says that chokers are a “thing” again? These trends are determined by Fashion Forecasters, or as I like to call them, the Fairy Godmothers of style. By collecting styles from the past and from the present, these trend detectives and fashion…
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FIT: Expectations versus Fantastically Incredible Truth
Hey city starlets! It’s time for another poast in which I toast FIT’s Precollege Program for opening me up to a world of coexisting creativity and focus that I didn’t know existed, let alone could enter before college! I had high hopes in signing up for my Product Development class this fall. After five weeks…
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On the Outside Looking In: Precollege Crash Course of HAC 063
Mentions of Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and Coco Chanel, were made when the class was asked about creative people who have used modern technology and advertising techniques to build empires. Walking into Professor Bohn’s dark computer lab where students listened to his lecture, I am reminded of my own college classes at BMCC. Students occasionally…
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What is Fashion Forecasting?
Hello readers! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. As the semester comes to an end in 3 short weeks, I thought I would go over what I’m learning in HFM 060: Fashion Forecasting: Seeing Into The Future. I took this course because I’ve always wondered why certain trends happen. Is there a science…