F I T - The Cut

new faces 5/3/2018

These 10 FIT Students Are the Future of FashionMeet this year’s “critics picks” before their big break.

By Emilia Petrarca

9/13/2017

21 Fashion Students on How They Dress for SchoolSalvation Army is in; black is out.

By Sarah Spellings

gallery 2/12/2017

A New Exhibit of 1960s Paris Fashion Reminds Us That Everything Is CyclicalA vintage yellow YSL jacket in FIT’s new retrospective looks a lot like Calvin Klein’s latest hit.

By Anna Furman

12/7/2016

Black Designers Finally Get a Museum ExhibitIncluding pieces from Tracy Reese, Duro Olowu, and more.

By Lindsay Peoples

fresh faces 5/6/2016

See the Best Looks From FIT’s Future of Fashion ShowThe next generation of fashion is upon us.

By Sarah Spellings

9/10/2015

Manolo Blahnik Is a Birkenstock FanHe considers the style “eternal.”

By Véronique Hyland

pomp and circumstance 5/21/2015

Brooke Shields Has 1,200 ‘Brooke Shields’ Brand Hair Dryers in Her GarageFrom an ill-fated 1986 endorsement.

By Véronique Hyland

museum pieces 2/6/2015

YSL and Halston Go Head-to-Head in New FIT ShowAn exhibit on their ’70s designs opens today.

By Véronique Hyland

numbers guy 6/11/2014

Zac Posen Was a Teenage MathleteAnd other revelations from his Couture Council Q&A.

By Véronique Hyland

bright college years 5/2/2014

Alexa Chung, Calvin Klein, and Vibrant Student Designs at FIT ShowAn eclectic group of collections.

By Véronique Hyland

babes in leather 3/6/2014

25 Badass Women in Biker JacketsBorn to be wild.

By Allison P. Davis

first look 2/6/2014

First Look: ‘Elegance in an Age of Crisis’Featuring Fred Astaire’s shoes.

By Leah Rodriguez

loose threads 9/14/2012

Angela Lansbury Covers The GentlewomanPlus, Gwyneth Paltrow is People’s best dressed woman of 2012.

scene stealers 8/31/2012

Slideshow: Street Style From New York’s Most Stylish CampusesPhotographer Bek Andersen captured fashionable kids heading back to school this week.

By Bek Andersen and Charlotte Cowles

fashion talks 5/7/2012

Franca Sozzani on Fashion’s Slim MentalityThe editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia spoke at FIT on Friday night.

By Ally Betker

show dogs 4/19/2012

A Review: FIT’s ‘Barkinistas’ Dog Fashion ShowComplete with doggie backpacks, suede coats, and pee on the catwalk.

By Julie Klausner

loose threads 2/10/2012

Lively Got Louboutins; Tod’s Gets Green LightPlus, details on the Juicy co-founders’ new label, Skaist-Taylor, which debuts on Tuesday, and more fashion news.

first looks 12/2/2011

A First Look at F.I.T.’s Next Exhibit, ‘Impact: Fifty Years of the CFDA’It includes the Narciso Rodriguez dress worn by Michelle Obama on election night in 2008.

By Charlotte Cowles

protests 11/30/2011

Human Rights Groups Protest a Sponsor of F.I.T’s Daphne Guinness ExhibitionDiamond magnate Lev Leviev’s business practices are under scrutiny.

By Alex Rees

fashion goddesses 10/24/2011

First Look: See Rose Hartman’s Photos of Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, Bethann Hardison, and More From F.I.T.’s Retrospective ExhibitA selection of the photographer’s works will be exhibited at F.I.T.

By Charlotte Cowles

vermin! 11/4/2010

FIT Warns Students of Lone Bedbug AttackerA source tells us mass hysteria has not ensued.

By Amy Odell

first looks 9/10/2010

First Look: ‘Japan Fashion Now’ at the Museum at F.I.T.Celebrating 25 years in Japanese fashion, from Comme des Garçons to Hello Kitty.

By Charlotte Cowles

party chat 9/10/2010

Karl Lagerfeld and Diane Kruger on Being Neighbors, and Being NervousWe spoke to the designer and the actress muse today at a luncheon in his honor.

By Chris Rovzar

eff the recession 5/10/2010

Design Students Can’t Get JobsIt seems best to be independently wealthy before getting into this line of work.

By Amy Odell

fashion smackdown 4/23/2010

Parsons and FIT Go Head-to-head With Senior BFA Shows Monday NightWill a flashy or more democratic runway show triumph?

By Katie Hintz

ice diva 3/3/2010

Johnny Weir to Ride Yak, Then Meet With F.I.T.He wasn’t kidding about his fashion-design aspirations.

By Amy Odell

behind the scenes 9/10/2009

Chatting With Dries Van Noten at FITWe talked with the critically adored Belgian designer about his latest collection.

By Jonah Green and Harriet Mays Powell

designer video 6/16/2009

Video: A Tour of ‘Isabel Toledo: Fashion From the Inside Out’Harriet Mays Powell takes a private tour with Isabel Toledo, husband Ruben, and Valerie Steele.

By Jonah Green and Harriet Mays Powell

design hunting 4/8/2009

Design Hunting: Gigantic Flowers, Hot-Pink Hands, and Flip-flop AnimalsRoving design editor Wendy Goodman uncovers the treasures of Gaetano Pesce, Robin Joy, Ashley Hicks, and more.

By Wendy Goodman

tastemakers 11/25/2008

Julianna Bass Is Sick of Your Colored TightsThe up-and-coming designer is being hailed as one to watch — and we couldn’t agree more.

By Davina Catt

tastemakers 6/17/2008

Valerie Steele Is Glad Black Is BackFIT’s resident curator Valerie Steele talks about her first big fashion purchase (she hyperventilated), her love of black, and how corsets got her career started.