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‘Sourcing Journal’ Spotlights FIT Materials Scientist’s Biotextile

August 4, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor of Science and Math Theanne Schiros’ bioleather is finding broader recognition. Recently, Sourcing Journal’s 2025 Material Innovations Report […]

Hilary Davidson and the Jane Austen pelisse she reconstructed on a dress form

Hilary Davidson’s Jane Austen Expertise on Full Display

July 9, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Graduate Studies

A silk pelisse coat created by Associate Professor Hilary Davidson, chair of FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum […]

FIT Advertising and Digital Design Ranks No. 2 in the U.S.

June 20, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Students, Top Stories

This year, FIT’s Advertising and Digital Design students won 10 Young Ones Student Awards from The One Club for Creativity, […]

This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

Hilary Davidson Wins Award From Costume Society of America

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Hilary Davidson, associate chair of the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program in the School of Graduate Studies, […]

Co-director of FIT Dance Company Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson smiles at the camera. She has her black hair in a topknot and wears a black open blazer with a navy blue scoop-neck top underneath.

Dance Team Co-Director Performs in Off-Broadway Musical

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay Athletics, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson (née Thomas), co-director of the FIT Dance Company team, is a member of the ensemble cast in the […]

Actor Claybourne Elder photographed by FIT Professor Ron Amato.

Ron Amato Photographs Actor Claybourne Elder for ‘Out’

April 21, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design

Professor Ron Amato’s photos of The Gilded Age star Claybourne Elder ran recently in an Out magazine fashion feature. The […]

FIT President Joyce F. Brown with Sustainability Council Chair Karen R. Peterson at the FIT Changemaker Award ceremony, where Dr. Brown received the award for her legacy of contributions to sustainability at FIT.

Sustainability Conference Welcomes Circularity Trailblazers

April 14, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

On April 8 and 9, FIT’s 19th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference, Charting a Course Toward Circularity, brought together […]

Portrait of a child with his pet rabbit.

Adrian Jones’ Photographs Receive Honors at Gallery Shows

March 14, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Assistant Professor Adrian Jones, a fine arts and commercial photographer, as well as a counselor in Career and Internship Services, […]

Alexander Nagel; Nagel accepting award from Iranian officials

Nagel Nabs Iran’s World Book Award for Studies on Ancient Pigments

March 10, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Alexander Nagel, chair, Art History and […]