Gary Wolf is a fashion business professional with experience in consulting for manufacturing, service, and retail companies. He is currently a professor in the Fashion Business Management Department. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA degree from Georgia State University. Gary has also been an Adjunct Professor not only at FIT, but at NYU, St John’s University, Hofstra University, Baruch University, and Parsons School of Design. During the summers of 2016 and 2017, he instructed a merchandising math and inventory valuation class at ZSTU in China.
Prof. Wolf teaches the following FIT Precollege Classes:
HFM 064 The Ins and Outs of Fashion Merchandising
HFM 060 Fashion Forecasting: Seeing into the Future
HSX 120 The Fabulous World of Fashion Forecasting
Teaching Philosophy:
Learning about fashion business should include problem-solving techniques that resemble real-life situations in the modern industry. I emphasize cognitive learning with an integration of modern fashion decision-making and current examples of success.
Industry Experience:
- National Field Marketing Director of Internap Network Services Corporation, a NASDAQ listed E-commerce innovator and provider
- Vice President, Planning and Marketing at Frederick Atkins, Inc., an international service, apparel product development, and research corporation.
- Vice President and Corporate Controller at Frederick Atkins.
- Board of Directors, Audit Committee, of Ultimate Shopping Network an OTC listed home shopping network and multi-store retailer
- Fathers Day Mothers Day Council and previously with Young Men’s Association (YMA) both non-profit apparel supported associations.
Elida Behar is a buyer with experience in multiple product categories, such as shoes, handbags, toys, dresses, childrenswear, and men’s furnishings. She has been teaching in the Fashion Business Management Department at FIT since 2009. She spent her life’s work in the retail industry. She worked first in luxury at Saks Fifth Avenue and then at the NYC off-price specialty retailer, Daffy’s.
goal of hers to design the homecoming tee-shirts. Her art career began when her school’s art teacher told her about a class she taught at a private studio, “she handed me fliers for the class, and from there I joined fashion design.” She joined the homecoming committee at her school and began creating designs. She tried several but none caught on. This Viking with a skeleton face (below) was outright rejected by her school. She combined her carnival tent and Viking design (below), and this ultimately ended up being the design that her school picked. According to Taylor, her shirts were a big hit at her school, “They sold out. I didn’t even get one.”
