experiencing dreams… before college
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How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Fashion Journey
Fashion designers from all over the world get their start at FIT. Many come back to learn even more skills, to stay on the cutting edge of fashion design and development. FIT has concentrations in menswear or womenswear. Whether you’ve been creating your own fashions since you were a tiny tot or just decided yesterday you were meant to…
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How can FIT’s Precollege Programs help you on your Interior Design Journey
Interior Design is one of the most popular majors at FIT. Interior designers create worlds inside walls with their creative layouts, material and lighting choices. But don’t confuse design with decorating. Interior Design is essentially interior architecture and is in the field of technical design. 11-session Precollege Courses We recommend a high school Precollege Live Class: Intro to Technical Drawing and Spatial…
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Instructor Spotlight: Erin Lefevre
Erin Lefevre is a native New Yorker and Documentary Photographer. Erin has interned at The Muskegon Chronicle in Michigan and The Hawk Eye Newspaper in Burlington, Iowa. At the conclusion of her internship, she began her freelance career. Her work appears in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, AARP, Associated Press, ProPublica, and various…
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Instructor Spotlight: Leticia Valdez
Leticia is a New York City-based freelance fashion and portraiture photographer who works with digital, film and 19th-century alternative photographic processes. Her photographic style is dim and soft, often drawing inspiration from art history and solitude. She is moved by dull and dark color palettes, opting for a quiet and serene mood. Leticia earned a Bachelor of Fine…
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Instructor Spotlight: Megan Madden
Megan Madden, an alumna Precollege student, is an Associate Photo Editor on Refinery29’s Photo Research team. During her course of study, Megan interned for MILK Studios, Refinery29, and Ecko Unltd. Post graduation she was an assistant at SkyPie Studios shortly before joining the Refinery29 Editorial Photo Team. Megan graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with…
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Instructor Spotlight: Stephen Savage
Stephen Savage is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator whose accolades include a New York Times Best Illustrated Book (Polar Bear Night), a Geisel Honor (Supertruck), and a Sendak Fellowship. His picture book Polar Bear Night was a New York Times bestseller. In addition to children’s books, he illustrates for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and Entertainment Weekly. He…
You’ve Been Accepted to FIT!
We are so proud of our Precollege students who go on to apply to FIT and who are accepted. We have collected their stories here.
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