If you’ve seen a chaotic scene on TikTok lately with people clamoring for brightly colored handbags, chances are good that it was for Pierre Laborde.
Category: Fashion Institute of Technology
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FIT’s Act 5 Graduate Showcase Gets New York Fashion Week Started
A graduate show at the Fashion Institute of Technology introduced the industry to a new generation of designers and helped kick off a busy calendar for insiders.
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Museum at FIT Tells the Story of the African Diaspora Through Its Fashions
By examining the work of designers of African descent, a new exhibition in Manhattan finds common threads and, more interestingly, divergences.
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What’s the Best Way to Assess the Quality of Fine Jewelry Online?
We asked a group of experts to share their strategies. Among the essentials: asking questions and understanding the difference among makers.
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Jon Haggins, Designer Who Slipped Into and Out of Fashion, Dies at 79
He was a member of a cohort of Black designers celebrated in the late 1960s and early ’70s. But struggles with financing led to several changes in direction.
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Hip-Hop Fashion Pioneers Reminisce About Clothes That Shaped the Genre
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:At an opening for a new exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, attendees embraced a musical fashion history.
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On Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary, a Look at the Genre’s Fashion
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:A museum exhibition and book kick off the anniversary of a genre incubated in the Bronx and exported to the world.