Fashion Institute of Technology

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Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design,{{cite web|url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/art-and-design/majors.php|title = FIT School of Art and Design |publisher=Fashion Institute of Technology |access-date = April 17, 2014}} and ten through the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology{{cite web|url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/business-and-technology/|title = FIT Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology|publisher = fitnyc.edu|access-date = April 17, 2014}} leading to degrees of Associate of Applied Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts, or Bachelor of Science. The School of Liberal Arts offers a degree program of Bachelor of Science in art history and museum professions and a degree program of Bachelor of Science in film and media.{{Cite web|title = School of Liberal Arts |url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/liberal-arts/ |publisher=Fashion Institute of Technology |access-date = January 24, 2016}} The School of Graduate Studies offers seven programs leading to degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, or Master of Professional Studies.{{cite web|url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/graduate-studies/|title = FIT School of Graduate Studies|publisher = Fashion Institute of Technology|access-date = April 17, 2014|archive-date = December 19, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151219011412/http://www.fitnyc.edu/graduate-studies/|url-status = dead}}

In addition to the degree programs, FIT offers a wide selection of non-credit courses through the Center for Professional Studies. One of the most popular programs is the "Sew Like a Pro" series, which teaches basic through advanced sewing skills.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fitnyc.edu/ccps/courses/noncredit/index.php|title=Noncredit Courses {{!}} Fashion Institute of Technology|website=www.fitnyc.edu|language=en|access-date=November 15, 2017}}

FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools,{{Cite web|title = Middle States Commission on Higher Education|url = http://www.msche.org/Institutions_Directory.asp|website = www.msche.org|access-date = January 24, 2016|publisher= Info724, Ltd.}} the National Association of Schools of Art and Design,{{Cite web|title=Accredited Institutional Members |url=http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=List_Accredited_Members&memberId=0f485b4fc47dcbac5b9609e9fe4226c5 |website=nasad.arts-accredit.org |access-date=January 24, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131050648/http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=List_Accredited_Members&memberId=0f485b4fc47dcbac5b9609e9fe4226c5 |archive-date=January 31, 2016 }} and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.{{Cite web|title = Accredited Programs {{!}} CIDA|url = http://accredit-id.org/accredited-programs/|website = accredit-id.org|access-date = January 24, 2016}} FIT publishes research on store branding and store positioning.{{cite book | title=Luxury Brand Management | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Chevalier, Michel | year=2012 | location=Singapore | isbn=978-1-118-17176-9}} In 1967, FIT faculty and staff won the first higher education union contract in New York State.{{Cite web|title = Our History|url = http://www.aft.org/highered/about-higher-education/our-history|website = American Federation of Teachers|date = July 18, 2014|access-date = February 23, 2016}} It is also a part of the Beta Theta Sigma chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, which has been active since 1999.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ptk.org/chapters/chapter-details/?chapter_id=000012003649|title=Chapter Details|website=Phi Theta Kappa}}

The nine-building campus in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan{{cite book|url=https://a002-ceqraccess.nyc.gov/ceqr/ProjectInformation/GetFile?fileName=06BSA014M_EAS_12052005&fileExt=.pdf&ceqrNum=06BSA014M&latestMS=EAS&token=62120c07-c8a0-4ca6-ad3f-c04cd845489a|title=Environmental Assessment Statement: 299 Seventh Avenue, New York City (prepared for NYC Board of Standards and Appeals)|publisher=Environmental Project Data Statements Co.|page=19|date=2005-12-15|quote=The project site is located in Manhattan's Midtown South neighborhood, and the 400-foot radius area around the property is predominantly characterized by large, bulky, older loft buildings that are occupIed by commercial or residential uses, and by buildings associated with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).}} includes classrooms, television and radio studios, labs, design workshops, and multiple exhibition galleries.

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

FIT serves more than 7,578 full-time and 2,186 part-time students.{{cite web|url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/about/get-to-know/enrollment-data.php|title = Fashion Institute of Technology—Enrollment Data publisher|access-date = January 14, 2016|archive-date = June 7, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200607171748/http://www.fitnyc.edu/about/get-to-know/enrollment-data.php|url-status = dead}} Four dormitories, three of which are on campus, serve approximately 2,300 students and offer a variety of accommodations.{{Cite web|url=http://fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=Future:StudentServices:ResidentialLife|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404074718/http://fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=Future%3AStudentServices%3AResidentialLife|url-status=dead|title=FIT Residential Life Homepage|archive-date=April 4, 2007}} 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 near the campus for FIT students. The campus also has a retail food court/dining hall, a deli and a Starbucks.{{cite web|url=http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSE/FIT/Locations/LocationsHome.htm |title=Welcome to CampusDish at the Fashion Institute of Technology! |publisher=Campusdish.com |access-date=April 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403183706/http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSE/FIT/Locations/LocationsHome.htm |archive-date=April 3, 2014 }}

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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, 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 access to books, periodicals, DVDs and non-print materials, and houses Fashion Institute of Technology Special Collections and College Archives.{{cite news|last1=Mzezewa|first1=Tariro|title=Fashion Institute of Technology's Library Gets a Makeover|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/fashion/fashion-institute-of-technology-library.html|access-date=February 9, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=2018}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.fitnyc.edu/library/|title = Gladys Marcus Library|access-date = January 14, 2016|publisher = fitnyc.edu}} FIT also has many computer labs for student use. The Instructional Media Services Department provides audiovisual and TV support and an in-house TV studio. Student work is also displayed throughout the campus. Fashion shows featuring the work of graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students occur each academic year.

The Design/Research Lighting Laboratory, a development facility for interior design 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.

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The Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 as the Design 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 Art, and then over time acquiring its own collection as well as thousands of textiles and other fashion-related material. In 1993, the Board of Trustees of FIT, noting the significance of the Design Laboratory's collections and exhibitions, changed the institution's name to The Museum at FIT.Steele, Valerie, Suzy Menkes, Fred Dennis, Robert Nippoldt, N.Y.) Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, and Museum. 2012. Fashion designers: the collection of the Museum at FIT. Köln; London: Taschen. 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/fashion/11iht-rsteele18.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |title=The Freud of Fashion |date=February 10, 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 11, 2013}} 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 contemporary avant-garde fashion.

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 floor features a rotating selection of approximately 200 historically and artistically significant objects from the museum's permanent collection. Gallery FIT, also located on the main floor, is dedicated to student and faculty exhibitions.{{cite web |url=http://www.fitnyc.edu/332.asp |title=About the Museum |publisher=fitnyc.edu |access-date=April 17, 2014 |archive-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419055658/https://www.fitnyc.edu/332.asp |url-status=dead }}

Past exhibitions include: London Fashion, which received the first Richard Martin Award for Excellence in Costume Exhibitions from The Costume Society of America, The Corset: Fashioning the Body, and Gothic: Dark Glamour. 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-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition from 2010 examining the past two centuries of fashion's good—and bad—environmental and ethical practices.

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

Fashion historian Valerie Steele became director of the Museum in 2003,{{cite web | url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/herreras-honor-7417294?src=nl/mornReport/20140207 | title=The Couture Council to Honor Carolina Herrera | publisher=WWD | date=February 7, 2014 | access-date=February 7, 2014 | author=Karimzadeh, Marc}} and has also been named chief curator.{{Cite web|url=http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/|title=Valerie Steele Fashion » Biography|website=valeriesteelefashion.com|access-date=March 8, 2016|archive-date=May 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531085338/http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/|url-status=dead}}

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File:Calvin Klein 2011 Shankbone.JPG|Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein, Inc.

File:Michael Kors, Photographed by Ed Kavishe for Fashion Wire Press.jpg|Michael Kors, fashion designer, President and CEO of Michael Kors

File:Karenallen17 cropped.jpg|Karen Allen, actress

File:Melissa McCarthy in 2018 (cropped).jpg|Melissa McCarthy, actress, comedian, writer and producer

File:Laverne Cox at "The Apprentice" in NYC 01.jpg|Laverne Cox, actress and LGBT advocate

File:Joel Schumacher at Taormina Film Fest 2003 (cropped).jpg|Joel Schumacher, director, producer, writer, costume designer

Well-known alumni of the school include the fashion designers Norma Kamali,Jackson, Kenneth, ed. 1995. "Fashion Institute of Technology". In The Encyclopedia of New York City, 392–93. Yale University Press."Norma Kamali Fashion Designer | Norma Kamali Biography, Information, Videos, News and the Latest Runway Collections". 2016. Accessed January 24. http://fashion.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011034756/http://fashion.infomat.com/norma-kamali-designer.html|date=October 11, 2016}}. Calvin Klein,{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.fitnyc.edu/undergraduate/thecollege/alumnioffit/|title=Alumni of FIT < Fashion Institute of Technology|website=catalog.fitnyc.edu}}[http://www.cfda.com/index.php?option=com_cfda_content&task=members_display&user_name=CalvinKlein CFDA Member Profile: Calvin Klein]. Council of Fashion Designers of America. Michael Kors (who did not complete his studies there),William Alden (February 4, 2014). [https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/michael-kors-is-now-a-billionaire/ "Michael Kors Is Now a Billionaire"]. Dealbook. The New York Times. Accessed September 2015. interior designer Scott Salvator,{{cite book |last1=Dellatore |first1=Carl |url=http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847848904 |title=Interior Design Master Class100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration |date=October 11, 2016 |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=978-0-8478-4890-4 |location=New York |page=cover, 54, 55}} actress and comedian Janelle James,{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/janelle-james-age-abbott-elementary-future-sexy-roles-1235587065/ | title=Janelle James on Refusing to Disclose Her Age, Hoping 'Abbott Elementary' Doesn't Last Forever and Why She's Not Interested in 'Sexy' Roles | date=April 19, 2023 }} actresses Karen Allen and Melissa McCarthy,{{cite web | url=https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/albany-film-festival-spotlight-karen-allen | title=Albany Film Festival spotlight: Karen Allen | date=17 March 2022 }} actress and LGBT advocate Laverne Cox{{cite web | url=https://news.fitnyc.edu/2020/04/23/an-fit-guide-to-binge-watching/ | title=An FIT Guide to Binge-Watching | date=April 23, 2020 }} and film director Joel Schumacher.[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018580/bio Joel Schumacher Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118041228/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018580/bio|date=January 18, 2012}}. Yahoo! Movies.

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