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Public college in New York Metropolis

Fashion Institute of Engineering science

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

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

Academics [edit]

The 27th Street campus of the Mode Constitute of Technology

The Marvin Feldman Center

The David Dubinsky Student Middle

Seventeen majors are offered through the Schoolhouse of Art and Design,^[4] and ten through the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Engineering science^[v] leading to the A.A.S., B.F.A., or B.S. degrees. The Schoolhouse of Liberal Arts offers a B.S. degree in art history and museum professions and a B.S. degree in film and media.^[vi] The Schoolhouse of Graduate Studies offers seven programs leading to the Principal of Arts, Master of Fine Arts or Master of Professional 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 nigh popular programs is the "Sew Like a Pro" series, which teaches bones through advanced sewing skills.^[eight]

FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Middle States Clan of Colleges and Schools,^[9] the National Association of Schools of Art and Design,^[10] and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.^[eleven] FIT publishes research on shop branding and shop positioning.^[12] In 1967, FIT faculty and staff won the first higher education union contract in New York Land.^[xiii]

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 Center at FIT features the John Eastward. Reeves Great Hall, a space suitable for conferences, fashion shows, lectures, and other events. The campus also has two large theatres: the Haft Auditorium and the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre.

FIT serves over vii,578 total-time and two,186 function-time students.^[fifteen] Iv dormitories, 3 of which are on-campus, serve approximately 2,300 students and offer a variety of accommodations.^[xvi] The George S. and Mariana Kaufman Residence Hall located at 406 Westward 31st Street—formerly a book bindery factory—was converted into residential apartments, to offer more housing near the campus for FIT students. The campus also has a retail nutrient court/dining hall, a deli and a Starbucks.^[17]

Bookish facilities [edit]

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

The Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center offers facilities for design studies: photography studios with black-and-white darkrooms, painting rooms, a sculpture studio, a printmaking room, a graphics laboratory, brandish and exhibit blueprint rooms, life-sketching rooms, and a model-making workshop. The Shirley Goodman Resource Centre houses the Museum at FIT and the Library/Media Services, with references for history, sociology, 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 admission to books, periodicals, DVDs and not-print materials, and houses Fashion Institute of Technology Special Collections and Higher Archives.^{[18] [xix]} FIT also has many reckoner labs for student use. The Instructional Media Services Department provides audiovisual and TV support and an in-house Television receiver studio. Student piece of work is too displayed throughout the campus. Fashion shows featuring the work of graduating B.F.A. students occur each bookish year.

The Design/Enquiry 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 schoolhouse include the way 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 film director Joel Schumacher.^[26]

The Museum at FIT [edit]

Design/Fabric Museum in New York, NY

The Museum at FIT

Established	1969[28]
Location	Seventh Avenue at 27th Street New York, NY 10001 (The states)
Type	Pattern/Cloth Museum[27]
Director	Valerie Steele
Public transit admission	New York City Subway: at 28th Street New York City Bus: M5, M7, M20, M23
Website	Museum at FIT

The Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 as the Design Laboratory, includes collections of wearable, textiles, and accessories. It began presenting exhibitions in the 1970s, utilizing a collection on long-term loan from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and so over time acquiring its own collection also as thousands of textiles and other mode-related cloth. 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 past the American Alliance of Museums.

The museum's permanent collection now includes more than than 50,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the present.^[thirty] Important designers such as 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 emphasis on contemporary avant-garde fashion.^[30]

There are 3 galleries in the museum. The lower level gallery is devoted to special exhibitions. The Fashion and Textile History Gallery on the principal floor features a rotating selection of approximately 200 historically and artistically significant objects from the museum'south permanent drove. Gallery FIT, too located on the main floor, is dedicated to student and kinesthesia exhibitions.^[31]

Past exhibitions include: London Style, which received the kickoff Richard Martin Honour for Excellence in Costume Exhibitions from The Costume Gild of America, The Corset: Fashioning the Body, and Gothic: Dark Glamour.^[30] 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 brandish, and a await at sustainable way with Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition from 2010 examining the past two centuries of style's good—and bad—environmental and ethical practices.

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

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Fast Facts". SUNY.
2. ^ "Our History". Fashion Institute of Engineering. Retrieved January fourteen, 2016.
3. ^ "Fashion Institute Plans Advanced". The New York Times. 1944.
4. ^ "FIT School of Art and Design". Fashion Institute of Technology. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
5. ^ "FIT Jay and Patty Bakery School of Concern and Technology". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
6. ^ "School of Liberal Arts". Fashion Constitute of Technology. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
7. ^ "FIT Schoolhouse of Graduate Studies". Fashion Institute of Technology. Retrieved Apr 17, 2014.
8. ^ "Noncredit Courses | Style Institute of Technology". www.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 January 31, 2016. Retrieved Jan 24, 2016.
11. ^ "Accredited Programs | CIDA". ascribe-id.org . Retrieved January 24, 2016.
12. ^ Chevalier, Michel (2012). Luxury Brand Direction. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-118-17176-9.
13. ^ "Our History". American Federation of Teachers. July 18, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
14. ^ Environmental Project Data Statements Co. (Dec xv, 2005). Environmental Assessment Statement: 299 7th Artery, 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-foot radius area around the property is predominantly characterized by big, beefy, older loft buildings that are occupIed by commercial or residential uses, and by buildings associated with the Style Institute of Engineering (FIT).
15. ^ "Fashion Institute of Technology—Enrollment Information publisher". Archived from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved Jan 14, 2016.
16. ^ "FIT Residential Life Homepage". Archived from the original on April 4, 2007.
17. ^ "Welcome to CampusDish at the Fashion Institute of Technology!". Campusdish.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
18. ^ Mzezewa, Tariro (2018). "Style Institute of Engineering science's Library Gets a Makeover". The New York Times . Retrieved February nine, 2018.
19. ^ "Gladys Marcus Library". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
20. ^ Jackson, Kenneth, ed. 1995. "Mode Institute of Technology". In The Encyclopedia of New York Metropolis, 392–93. Yale University Press.
21. ^ "Norma Kamali Fashion Designer | Norma Kamali Biography, Information, Videos, News and the Latest Rail Collections". 2016. Accessed January 24. http://fashion.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html Archived October eleven, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
22. ^ Noted FIT Alumni Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Automobile. Fashion Institute of Technology. Accessed January 3, 2010.
23. ^ CFDA Member Profile: Calvin Klein. Council of Mode Designers of America.
24. ^ William Alden (February iv, 2014). "Michael Kors Is Now a Billionaire". Dealbook. The New York Times. Accessed September 2015.
25. ^ Dellatore, Carl (October 11, 2016). Interior Design Primary Class100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Fine art of Decoration. New York: Rizzoli. p. encompass, 54, 55. ISBN978-0-8478-4890-four.
26. ^ Joel Schumacher Biography Archived January xviii, 2012, at the Wayback Automobile. Yahoo! Movies.
27. ^ "Well-nigh the Museum" Archived April 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine 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, North.Y.) Fashion Institute of Engineering science (New York, and Museum. 2012. Fashion designers: the collection of the Museum at FIT. Köln; London: Taschen.
30. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Freud of Mode". The New York Times. February x, 2012. Retrieved Jan 11, 2013.
31. ^ "Almost the Museum". fitnyc.edu. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
32. ^ Karimzadeh, Marc (February 7, 2014). "The Couture Council to Award Carolina Herrera". WWD. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
33. ^ "Valerie Steele Mode » Biography". valeriesteelefashion.com . Retrieved March 8, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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