Category: Business and Technology
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Instructor Spotlight: Jully-Alma Taveras
Jully-Alma Taveras is an energetic, motivated and fashion obsessed NYC girl. Her experience in the fashion industry started at 16 years old, interning for fur designer Adrianne Landau. Since then, Jully has earned degrees at FIT in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising Management. She has worked in various different roles including luxury design, marketing, fashion show production, celebrity…
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Instructor Spotlight: Shawn Carter
Shawn Grain Carter’s career began as an Executive at Bloomingdale’s. In 1986 she launched Bergdorf Goodman’s Home Furnishings Division “The Home on Seven.” Years later she joined Ann Taylor Stores as a Buyer of Dresses, Sportswear, and Accessories until 1991 when she gave birth. Subsequently, she became Merchandising Director at a European luxury brand MCM. Her responsibilities included marketing for…
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Farewell Post by Rachel K.
FIT’s Summer of 2015 Pre-College Cosmetics and Fragrance Lab was “da balm!” From going on an amazing Sephora field trip to making cosmetics such as lip balm, perfume, body oil, bar soap and moisturizer- everyday was full of excitement and fun! Not to mention, the numerous great friends I made in the short 3 weeks…
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Instructor Spotlight: Josh Tierney
Josh Tierney is a multidisciplinary designer and creative director. His diverse background and understanding of fashion, styling, visual merchandising, theater, fashion, graphics, interiors, food, and art have provided him with a unique point of view for planning and designing unique events. Josh has worked on events of all sizes and scope, in venues in the…
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Bye! Adiós! Ciao! Au Revoir!
Hey Mod Mavens! I haven’t posted in a while because my two fabulous professors have been keeping me busy with fashion projects. So busy, actually, that I did not even notice three weeks had passed by. Before I started on my Precollege adventure, I looked at three weeks like it was a lifetime. The days…
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Fishing for the Stars | Farewell
“If you a give a man a fish, he will eat for one day. If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for the rest of his life.” I learned this quote from this session of F.I.T Precollege and it has resonated with me since the first time it rang in my ears.…