Fashion Institute of Technology Human Resources

Public college in New York City

Fashion Constitute of Technology

Type	Public college
Established	1944; 78 years ago  (1944)
Parent institution	State University of New York
President	Joyce F. Brownish
Students	8,767[1]
Undergraduates	8,555
Postgraduates	212
Location	New York City , The states 40°44′48″Northward 73°59′39″W  /  40.74667°N 73.99417°W  / forty.74667; -73.99417 Coordinates: 40°44′48″North 73°59′39″W  /  forty.74667°North 73.99417°Due west  / 40.74667; -73.99417
Campus	Urban, i.5 blocks
Nickname	Tigers
Mascot	Stitch
Website	world wide web.fitnyc.edu

The Way Establish of Engineering science (FIT) is a public college in New York City. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) and focuses on art, business, pattern, mass communication, and technology continued to the fashion manufacture. It was founded in 1944.^{[2] [three]}

Academics [edit]

The 27th Street campus of the Fashion Plant of Technology

The Marvin Feldman Center

The David Dubinsky Student Centre

Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design,^[4] and x through the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology^[v] leading to the A.A.S., B.F.A., or B.S. degrees. The School of Liberal Arts offers a B.S. caste in art history and museum professions and a B.South. caste in film and media.^[six] The School of Graduate Studies offers seven programs leading to the Master of Arts, Principal of Fine Arts or Master of Professional Studies degrees.^[vii]

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

FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Centre States Association of Colleges and Schools,^[9] the National Association of Schools of Fine art and Pattern,^[10] and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.^[11] FIT publishes research on shop branding and store positioning.^[12] In 1967, FIT faculty and staff won the first higher education union contract in New York State.^[xiii]

Campus [edit]

The nine-building campus in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan^[fourteen] includes classrooms, idiot box and radio studios, labs, design workshops, and multiple exhibition galleries.

The campus has a Barnes & Noble College Bookstore. The Conference Middle at FIT features the John Due east. Reeves Great Hall, a space suitable for conferences, mode shows, lectures, and other events. The campus also has two large theatres: the Haft Auditorium and the Katie Irish potato Amphitheatre.

FIT serves over 7,578 full-time and two,186 office-fourth dimension students.^[15] Four dormitories, three of which are on-campus, serve approximately ii,300 students and offering a variety of accommodations.^[16] 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 offer more housing well-nigh the campus for FIT students. The campus also has a retail food courtroom/dining hall, a deli and a Starbucks.^[17]

Academic facilities [edit]

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

The Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Eye 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 Resource Center 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 non-print materials, and houses Fashion Establish of Technology Special Collections and College Athenaeum.^{[18] [19]} FIT also has many computer labs for student use. The Instructional Media Services Department provides audiovisual and TV back up and an in-firm TV studio. Student work is also displayed throughout the campus. Manner shows featuring the work of graduating B.F.A. students occur each academic yr.

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

Alumni [edit]

Well-known alumni of the school include the way designers Norma Kamali,^{[20] [21]} Calvin Klein,^{[22] [23]} Michael Kors (who did not complete his studies there),^[24] interior designer Scott Salvator,^[25] and motion picture managing 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 (U.s.)
Blazon	Design/Cloth Museum[27]
Director	Valerie Steele
Public transit access	New York Metropolis 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 Blueprint 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, and then over time acquiring its ain collection as well as thousands of textiles and other mode-related material. In 1993, the Lath of Trustees of FIT, noting the significance of the Design Laboratory'southward collections and exhibitions, changed the institution's name to The Museum at FIT.^[29] In 2012, the museum was awarded accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.

The museum's permanent collection now includes more than 50,000 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 accent on gimmicky avant-garde manner.^[30]

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

By exhibitions include: London Fashion, which received the outset Richard Martin Laurels for Excellence in Costume Exhibitions from The Costume Society of America, The Corset: Fashioning the Torso, and Gothic: Dark Glamour.^[30] Other special exhibitions have included Isabel Toledo: Style From the Within Out, in which the inauguration day ensemble Isabel Toledo designed for Michelle Obama in 2008 was on brandish, and a look at sustainable manner with Eco-Way: Going Green, an exhibition from 2010 examining the past two centuries of fashion's good—and bad—environmental and upstanding practices.

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

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Fast Facts". SUNY.
2. ^ "Our History". Fashion Constitute of Technology. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
3. ^ "Fashion Found Plans Advanced". The New York Times. 1944.
4. ^ "FIT School of Art and Design". Way Plant of Technology. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
5. ^ "FIT Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
6. ^ "School of Liberal Arts". Fashion Establish of Technology. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
7. ^ "FIT School of Graduate Studies". Fashion Found of Technology. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
8. ^ "Noncredit Courses | Fashion Found of Technology". www.fitnyc.edu . Retrieved November 15, 2017.
9. ^ Ltd., Info724. "Center States Commission on College 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 January 24, 2016.
11. ^ "Accredited Programs | CIDA". accredit-id.org . Retrieved Jan 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. ^ Ecology Project Information Statements Co. (Dec xv, 2005). Environmental Cess Argument: 299 7th Avenue, New York City (prepared for NYC Board of Standards and Appeals). p. 19. The projection site is located in Manhattan's Midtown South neighborhood, and the 400-human foot radius expanse around the property is predominantly characterized past large, beefy, older loft buildings that are occupIed by commercial or residential uses, and past buildings associated with the Style Plant of Applied science (FIT).
15. ^ "Fashion Institute of Technology—Enrollment Data publisher". Retrieved January 14, 2016.
16. ^ "FIT Residential Life Homepage". Archived from the original on April iv, 2007.
17. ^ "Welcome to CampusDish at the Manner Institute of Engineering!". Campusdish.com. Archived from the original on Apr three, 2014. Retrieved Apr 17, 2014.
18. ^ Mzezewa, Tariro (2018). "Manner Institute of Engineering'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. "Fashion Constitute of Technology". In The Encyclopedia of New York Metropolis, 392–93. Yale University Printing.
21. ^ "Norma Kamali Fashion Designer | Norma Kamali Biography, Data, Videos, News and the Latest Runway Collections". 2016. Accessed January 24. http://style.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html.
22. ^ Noted FIT Alumni Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Mode Constitute of Technology. Accessed January 3, 2010.
23. ^ CFDA Member Contour: Calvin Klein. Council of Fashion Designers of America.
24. ^ William Alden (Feb 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 Primary Class100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration. New York: Rizzoli. p. embrace, 54, 55. ISBN978-0-8478-4890-4.
26. ^ Joel Schumacher Biography Archived January 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Yahoo! Movies.
27. ^ "Nigh the Museum" on the FIT website
28. ^ "History of the Museum" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Automobile on the FIT website
29. ^ Steele, Valerie, Suzy Menkes, Fred Dennis, Robert Nippoldt, N.Y.) Style Institute of Technology (New York, and Museum. 2012. Mode designers: the collection of the Museum at FIT. Köln; London: Taschen.
30. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Freud of Way". The New York Times. Feb 10, 2012. Retrieved January eleven, 2013.
31. ^ "About the Museum". fitnyc.edu. Retrieved Apr 17, 2014.
32. ^ Karimzadeh, Marc (February 7, 2014). "The Couture Council to Honor Carolina Herrera". WWD. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
33. ^ "Valerie Steele Fashion » Biography". valeriesteelefashion.com . Retrieved March 8, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Official website

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