Suny Fashion Institute of Technology Motto

Public higher in New York City

Fashion Plant of Technology

Blazon	Public college
Established	1944; 78 years ago  (1944)
Parent institution	State University of New York
President	Joyce F. Brown
Students	8,767[i]
Undergraduates	8,555
Postgraduates	212
Location	New York City , United States 40°44′48″Due north 73°59′39″W  /  forty.74667°N 73.99417°West  / 40.74667; -73.99417 Coordinates: 40°44′48″N 73°59′39″Westward  /  40.74667°N 73.99417°Due west  / twoscore.74667; -73.99417
Campus	Urban, ane.5 blocks
Nickname	Tigers
Mascot	Sew
Website	www.fitnyc.edu

The Way Institute of Technology (FIT) is a public college in New York City. Information technology is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) and focuses on art, business, design, mass communication, and engineering science continued to the fashion industry. It was founded in 1944.^{[2] [3]}

Academics [edit]

The 27th Street campus of the Fashion Plant of Technology

The Marvin Feldman Center

The David Dubinsky Student Eye

Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design,^[4] and ten through the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business organization and Technology^[v] leading to the A.A.S., B.F.A., or B.S. degrees. The Schoolhouse of Liberal Arts offers a B.Southward. degree in art history and museum professions and a B.S. degree in pic and media.^[6] The School of Graduate Studies offers seven programs leading to the Principal of Arts, Main of Fine Arts or Chief of Professional person Studies degrees.^[7]

In addition to the degree programs, FIT offers a wide selection of non-credit courses through the Center for Professional Studies. One of the near popular programs is the "Sew together Like a Pro" series, which teaches basic through advanced sewing skills.^[8]

FIT is an accredited institutional fellow member of the Middle States Clan of Colleges and Schools,^[9] the National Association of Schools of Art and Pattern,^[ten] and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.^[11] FIT publishes research on store branding and store positioning.^[12] In 1967, FIT faculty and staff won the first college pedagogy union contract in New York State.^[13]

Campus [edit]

The 9-building campus in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan^[14] includes classrooms, television and radio studios, labs, design workshops, and multiple exhibition galleries.

The campus has a Barnes & Noble College Bookstore. The Conference Center at FIT features the John Due east. Reeves Great Hall, a space suitable for conferences, fashion shows, lectures, and other events. The campus as well has two large theatres: the Haft Auditorium and the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre.

FIT serves over 7,578 full-time and 2,186 part-fourth dimension students.^[15] Four dormitories, three of which are on-campus, serve approximately two,300 students and offer a variety of accommodations.^[sixteen] The George South. and Mariana Kaufman Residence Hall located at 406 West 31st Street—formerly a book bindery factory—was converted into residential apartments, to offer more than housing near the campus for FIT students. The campus too has a retail nutrient court/dining hall, a deli and a Starbucks.^[17]

Academic facilities [edit]

The Fred P. Pomerantz Fine art & Design Centre (nearly) and the Shirley Goodman Resource Center (far) straddle the 27th Street entrance to the campus.

The Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Pattern Centre offers facilities for pattern studies: photography studios with blackness-and-white darkrooms, painting rooms, a sculpture studio, a printmaking room, a graphics laboratory, brandish and exhibit design rooms, life-sketching rooms, and a model-making workshop. The Shirley Goodman Resource Center houses the Museum at FIT and the Library/Media Services, with references for history, folklore, technology, art, and literature; international journals and periodicals; sketchbooks and records donated by designers, manufacturers, and merchants; slides, tapes, and periodicals; and a clipping file. The Gladys Marcus Library provides access to books, periodicals, DVDs and non-print materials, and houses Mode Institute of Technology Special Collections and College Archives.^{[18] [19]} FIT besides has many calculator labs for student use. The Instructional Media Services Department provides audiovisual and Television receiver support and an in-business firm TV studio. Educatee work is as well displayed throughout the campus. Mode shows featuring the work of graduating B.F.A. students occur each academic yr.

The Design/Research Lighting Laboratory, a evolution facility for interior blueprint and other academic disciplines, features 400 commercially available lighting fixtures controlled by a computer. The Annette Green/Fragrance Foundation Laboratory is an environment for the study of fragrance development.

Alumni [edit]

Well-known alumni of the school include the style designers Norma Kamali,^{[20] [21]} Calvin Klein,^{[22] [23]} Michael Kors (who did non complete his studies there),^[24] interior designer Scott Salvator,^[25] and motion picture director Joel Schumacher.^[26]

The Museum at FIT [edit]

Design/Cloth Museum in New York, NY

The Museum at FIT

Established	1969[28]
Location	Seventh Avenue at 27th Street New York, NY 10001 (United states of america)
Type	Design/Fabric Museum[27]
Director	Valerie Steele
Public transit access	New York City Subway: at 28th Street New York City Coach: M5, M7, M20, M23
Website	Museum at FIT

The Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 as the Pattern Laboratory, includes collections of vesture, textiles, and accessories. It began presenting exhibitions in the 1970s, utilizing a collection on long-term loan from the Brooklyn Museum of Fine art, and and so over time acquiring its own drove likewise equally thousands of textiles and other fashion-related material. In 1993, the Board of Trustees of FIT, noting the significance of the Pattern Laboratory's collections and exhibitions, changed the establishment'southward proper noun to The Museum at FIT.^[29] In 2012, the museum was awarded accreditation past the American Brotherhood of Museums.

The museum'due south permanent drove at present includes more than l,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the present.^[30] Important designers such as Adrian, Balenciaga, Chanel, and Dior are represented. The collecting policy of the museum focuses on aesthetically and historically significant clothing, accessories, textiles and visual materials, with emphasis on gimmicky avant-garde fashion.^[30]

There are three galleries in the museum. The lower level gallery is devoted to special exhibitions. The Fashion and Cloth History Gallery on the main flooring features a rotating option of approximately 200 historically and artistically meaning objects from the museum's permanent collection. Gallery FIT, as well located on the main floor, is dedicated to student and faculty exhibitions.^[31]

Past exhibitions include: London Fashion, which received the first Richard Martin Honour for Excellence in Costume Exhibitions from The Costume Society of America, The Corset: Fashioning the Body, and Gothic: Night Glamour.^[30] Other special exhibitions have included Isabel Toledo: Mode From the Inside Out, in which the inauguration mean solar day ensemble Isabel Toledo designed for Michelle Obama in 2008 was on display, and a expect at sustainable fashion with Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition from 2010 examining the past 2 centuries of way's good—and bad—environmental and ethical practices.

More than 100,000 people visit The Museum at FIT each twelvemonth, attending exhibitions, lectures, and other events. Admission is free to the public.

Fashion historian Valerie Steele became director of the Museum in 2003,^{[30] [32]} and has also been named chief curator.^[33]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Fast Facts". SUNY.
2. ^ "Our History". Mode Institute of Technology. Retrieved Jan 14, 2016.
3. ^ "Fashion Found Plans Advanced". The New York Times. 1944.
4. ^ "FIT Schoolhouse of Fine art and Design". Fashion Institute of Applied science. Retrieved Apr 17, 2014.
5. ^ "FIT Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Applied science". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
6. ^ "School of Liberal Arts". Mode Plant of Technology. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
7. ^ "FIT School of Graduate Studies". Style Plant of Technology. Retrieved Apr 17, 2014.
8. ^ "Noncredit Courses | Fashion Plant of Engineering". www.fitnyc.edu . Retrieved Nov fifteen, 2017.
9. ^ Ltd., Info724. "Middle States Committee on College Education". www.msche.org . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
10. ^ "Accredited Institutional Members". nasad.arts-ascribe.org. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
11. ^ "Accredited Programs | CIDA". accredit-id.org . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
12. ^ Chevalier, Michel (2012). Luxury Make Management. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-118-17176-9.
13. ^ "Our History". American Federation of Teachers. July 18, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
14. ^ Ecology Projection Data Statements Co. (December fifteen, 2005). Ecology Assessment Statement: 299 Seventh Avenue, New York City (prepared for NYC Board of Standards and Appeals). p. 19. The project site is located in Manhattan's Midtown South neighborhood, and the 400-pes radius area around the property is predominantly characterized past big, bulky, older loft buildings that are occupIed past commercial or residential uses, and by buildings associated with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
15. ^ "Fashion Found of Technology—Enrollment Data publisher". Retrieved Jan fourteen, 2016.
16. ^ "FIT Residential Life Homepage". Archived from the original on April iv, 2007.
17. ^ "Welcome to CampusDish at the Style Plant of Technology!". Campusdish.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
18. ^ Mzezewa, Tariro (2018). "Fashion Institute of Technology's Library Gets a Makeover". The New York Times . Retrieved February 9, 2018.
19. ^ "Gladys Marcus Library". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved January xiv, 2016.
20. ^ Jackson, Kenneth, ed. 1995. "Fashion Institute of Applied science". In The Encyclopedia of New York Urban center, 392–93. Yale University Press.
21. ^ "Norma Kamali Mode Designer | Norma Kamali Biography, Information, Videos, News and the Latest Runway Collections". 2016. Accessed January 24. http://fashion.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html.
22. ^ Noted FIT Alumni Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Motorcar. Mode Institute of Engineering. Accessed Jan iii, 2010.
23. ^ CFDA Member Profile: Calvin Klein. Quango of Style Designers of America.
24. ^ William Alden (February four, 2014). "Michael Kors Is Now a Billionaire". Dealbook. The New York Times. Accessed September 2015.
25. ^ Dellatore, Carl (Oct 11, 2016). Interior Blueprint Principal Class100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Ornamentation. New York: Rizzoli. p. cover, 54, 55. ISBN978-0-8478-4890-iv.
26. ^ Joel Schumacher Biography Archived January 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Yahoo! Movies.
27. ^ "Most the Museum" on the FIT website
28. ^ "History of the Museum" Archived July eighteen, 2011, at the Wayback Machine on the FIT website
29. ^ Steele, Valerie, Suzy Menkes, Fred Dennis, Robert Nippoldt, N.Y.) Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, and Museum. 2012. Way designers: the drove of the Museum at FIT. Köln; London: Taschen.
30. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Freud of Mode". The New York Times. Feb 10, 2012. Retrieved Jan xi, 2013.
31. ^ "Virtually the Museum". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
32. ^ Karimzadeh, Marc (February 7, 2014). "The Couture Council to Laurels Carolina Herrera". WWD. Retrieved Feb vii, 2014.
33. ^ "Valerie Steele Fashion » Biography". valeriesteelefashion.com . Retrieved March 8, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Official website

Share this post