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Alumni Stories

A Friendship, Years in the Making By Jonathan Vatner At FIT, mentorship doesn’t stop at graduation It’s not just the high-level industry experience and connections that make FIT faculty special, it’s also their commitment to educating, nurturing, and mentoring students. Often the relationships shaped in the classroom flourish after students become alumni and need help […]

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Comp Shopping

Our recent “Textile Applications: Home Products” assignment was to present comparisons on prices, fiber content, fabric construction and printing method on two soft furnishings. To demonstrate, Professor Cora took class on the road. We met at the brand new (less than a week old at the time!) One Kings Lane store, at 143 Spring Street, […]

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Target: redefining home

Have you seen Target’s home department lately? Target has upped the game once more with its lifestyle merchandising; opening up aisles to create home vignettes that make shopping at this mass-merchant a whole new experience. Fitting to Target’s “expect more, pay less” brand promise, product and price are impressive. Carefully curated collections inspire your inner […]