Organization Classes Fashion Institute of Technology

Public college in New York City

Fashion Plant of Technology

Type	Public college
Established	1944; 78 years agone  (1944)
Parent institution	State University of New York
President	Joyce F. Brown
Students	8,767[1]
Undergraduates	8,555
Postgraduates	212
Location	New York Urban center , United States 40°44′48″Northward 73°59′39″W  /  40.74667°N 73.99417°W  / 40.74667; -73.99417 Coordinates: forty°44′48″N 73°59′39″W  /  40.74667°N 73.99417°W  / 40.74667; -73.99417
Campus	Urban, 1.5 blocks
Nickname	Tigers
Mascot	Stitch
Website	www.fitnyc.edu

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

Academics [edit]

The 27th Street campus of the Way Institute of Engineering

The Marvin Feldman Heart

The David Dubinsky Student Center

Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design,^[4] and ten through the Jay and Patty Bakery Schoolhouse of Business concern and Technology^[5] leading to the A.A.Due south., B.F.A., or B.S. degrees. The School of Liberal Arts offers a B.Due south. degree in art history and museum professions and a B.S. degree in flick and media.^[6] The School of Graduate Studies offers seven programs leading to the Primary of Arts, Master of Fine Arts or Master of Professional Studies degrees.^[7]

In addition to the caste programs, FIT offers a wide selection of not-credit courses through the Center for Professional Studies. One of the most popular programs is the "Sew together Like a Pro" series, which teaches basic through advanced sewing skills.^[8]

FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools,^[9] the National Association of Schools of Art and Design,^[10] and the Council for Interior Blueprint Accreditation.^[11] FIT publishes enquiry on shop branding and store positioning.^[12] In 1967, FIT faculty and staff won the first higher teaching union contract in New York State.^[thirteen]

Campus [edit]

The nine-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 Higher Bookstore. The Conference Eye at FIT features the John East. Reeves Great Hall, a space suitable for conferences, fashion shows, lectures, and other events. The campus likewise has two large theatres: the Haft Auditorium and the Katie White potato Amphitheatre.

FIT serves over 7,578 full-time and 2,186 part-time students.^[15] 4 dormitories, three of which are on-campus, serve approximately ii,300 students and offer a multifariousness of accommodations.^[sixteen] The George S. and Mariana Kaufman Residence Hall located at 406 West 31st Street—formerly a book bindery factory—was converted into residential apartments, to offering more than housing virtually the campus for FIT students. The campus as well has a retail food court/dining hall, a deli and a Starbucks.^[17]

Academic facilities [edit]

The Fred P. Pomerantz Art & Design Center (near) and the Shirley Goodman Resource Center (far) straddle the 27th Street entrance to the campus.

The Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Heart offers facilities for design studies: photography studios with black-and-white darkrooms, painting rooms, a sculpture studio, a printmaking room, a graphics laboratory, display and exhibit design rooms, life-sketching rooms, and a model-making workshop. The Shirley Goodman Resources Center houses the Museum at FIT and the Library/Media Services, with references for history, sociology, engineering science, 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 admission to books, periodicals, DVDs and non-print materials, and houses Fashion Institute of Technology Special Collections and College Archives.^{[18] [xix]} FIT also has many reckoner labs for educatee utilise. The Instructional Media Services Department provides audiovisual and TV support and an in-house Goggle box studio. Student work is as well displayed throughout the campus. Fashion shows featuring the piece of work of graduating B.F.A. students occur each academic year.

The Design/Research Lighting Laboratory, a development facility for interior blueprint and other academic disciplines, features 400 commercially bachelor lighting fixtures controlled by a figurer. The Annette Greenish/Fragrance Foundation Laboratory is an environment for the written report of fragrance evolution.

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	7th Artery at 27th Street New York, NY 10001 (United states of america)
Type	Design/Textile Museum[27]
Manager	Valerie Steele
Public transit access	New York City Subway: at 28th Street New York Metropolis Bus: M5, M7, M20, M23
Website	Museum at FIT

The Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 equally the Pattern Laboratory, includes collections of clothing, textiles, and accessories. It began presenting exhibitions in the 1970s, utilizing a collection on long-term loan from the Brooklyn Museum of Fine art, so over fourth dimension acquiring its own collection as well every bit thousands of textiles and other way-related material. In 1993, the Lath of Trustees of FIT, noting the significance of the Design Laboratory's collections and exhibitions, changed the institution's proper noun to The Museum at FIT.^[29] In 2012, the museum was awarded accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.

The museum'southward permanent collection now includes more than 50,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the present.^[thirty] Important designers such every bit Adrian, Balenciaga, Chanel, and Dior are represented. The collecting policy of the museum focuses on aesthetically and historically meaning clothing, accessories, textiles and visual materials, with accent on contemporary avant-garde manner.^[30]

In that location are three galleries in the museum. The lower level gallery is devoted to special exhibitions. The Fashion and Textile History Gallery on the main floor features a rotating selection of approximately 200 historically and artistically significant objects from the museum'south permanent collection. Gallery FIT, also located on the principal flooring, is dedicated to student and faculty exhibitions.^[31]

Past exhibitions include: London Fashion, which received the first Richard Martin Award for Excellence in Costume Exhibitions from The Costume Lodge of America, The Corset: Fashioning the Trunk, and Gothic: Dark Glamour.^[xxx] Other special exhibitions have included Isabel Toledo: Fashion From the Inside Out, in which the inauguration day ensemble Isabel Toledo designed for Michelle Obama in 2008 was on display, and a look at sustainable fashion with Eco-Mode: Going Light-green, an exhibition from 2010 examining the past ii centuries of mode'south skilful—and bad—environmental and ethical practices.

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

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Fast Facts". SUNY.
2. ^ "Our History". Style Institute of Applied science. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
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4. ^ "FIT School of Art and Design". Mode Found of Technology. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
5. ^ "FIT Jay and Patty Baker Schoolhouse of Business and Engineering science". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
6. ^ "School of Liberal Arts". Fashion Found of Technology. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
7. ^ "FIT Schoolhouse of Graduate Studies". Manner Institute of Applied science. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
8. ^ "Noncredit Courses | Way Institute of Technology". world wide web.fitnyc.edu . Retrieved November 15, 2017.
9. ^ Ltd., Info724. "Middle States Commission on Higher Education". www.msche.org . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
10. ^ "Accredited Institutional Members". nasad.arts-accredit.org. Archived from the original on Jan 31, 2016. Retrieved Jan 24, 2016.
11. ^ "Accredited Programs | CIDA". accredit-id.org . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
12. ^ Chevalier, Michel (2012). Luxury Brand Management. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-one-118-17176-9.
13. ^ "Our History". American Federation of Teachers. July 18, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
14. ^ Environmental 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'south Midtown South neighborhood, and the 400-pes radius area around the property is predominantly characterized past big, beefy, older loft buildings that are occupIed by commercial or residential uses, and by buildings associated with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
15. ^ "Style Institute of Technology—Enrollment Data publisher". Retrieved January 14, 2016.
16. ^ "FIT Residential Life Homepage". Archived from the original on April 4, 2007.
17. ^ "Welcome to CampusDish at the Fashion Constitute of Technology!". Campusdish.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
18. ^ Mzezewa, Tariro (2018). "Fashion Institute of Applied science's Library Gets a Makeover". The New York Times . Retrieved Feb nine, 2018.
19. ^ "Gladys Marcus Library". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved Jan 14, 2016.
20. ^ Jackson, Kenneth, ed. 1995. "Fashion Institute of Technology". In The Encyclopedia of New York City, 392–93. Yale University Printing.
21. ^ "Norma Kamali Fashion Designer | Norma Kamali Biography, Information, Videos, News and the Latest Rails Collections". 2016. Accessed January 24. http://way.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html.
22. ^ Noted FIT Alumni Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Fashion Establish of Technology. Accessed January iii, 2010.
23. ^ CFDA Fellow member Profile: Calvin Klein. Council of Fashion Designers of America.
24. ^ William Alden (February 4, 2014). "Michael Kors Is At present a Billionaire". Dealbook. The New York Times. Accessed September 2015.
25. ^ Dellatore, Carl (October xi, 2016). Interior Design Main Class100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration. 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. ^ "About the Museum" on the FIT website
28. ^ "History of the Museum" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine on the FIT website
29. ^ Steele, Valerie, Suzy Menkes, Fred Dennis, Robert Nippoldt, North.Y.) Style Found of Technology (New York, and Museum. 2012. Manner designers: the collection of the Museum at FIT. Köln; London: Taschen.
30. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Freud of Style". The New York Times. Feb 10, 2012. Retrieved Jan 11, 2013.
31. ^ "About the Museum". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
32. ^ Karimzadeh, Marc (Feb 7, 2014). "The Couture Council to Laurels Carolina Herrera". WWD. Retrieved February seven, 2014.
33. ^ "Valerie Steele Fashion » Biography". valeriesteelefashion.com . Retrieved March 8, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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