Fashion Institute of Technology
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Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a State University of New York college of art and design located in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, United States.Founded in 1944, Fashion Institute of Technology is a college of art, business, design, and technology, of the State University of New York. It is ranked among the top five fashion schools in the world. Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design and ten through the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology leading to the A.A.S., B.F.A., or B.S.
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Fashion Week goes to law school
On Friday, the two-year-old Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University School of Law celebrated its year-long pop-up law clinics at New York Fashion Week. The presentation, which took place inside the tents at Lincoln Center, highlighted the wares of six designers who have utilized the fashion law program.
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This 29-Year-Old Is Building The Next Great Fashion Startup Out Of New York
"I like to track StyleCaster's success based on where we sit during Fashion Week," said Ari Goldberg, the CEO of StyleCaster, a three-year-old fashion media start-up, as he took his front row seat at the Tibi runway show at Lincoln Center.
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Perspective: He's a Sole Man
While most men are hardly aware of the fact, they all owe a debt of gratitude to John F. Kennedy. Yes, there was that Cuban Missile thing he diffused. But an improbably more enduring legacy survives, of all places, under your bed. Gents, next time you pull on a casual dress shoe, thank Jack.
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Introducing The 31 Best New Tech Founders In NYC
Those are just some of the founders who will be debuting this summer at Techstars NYC Demo Day.
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Perspective: The Skinny on Skivvies
In the 1958 film Long, Hot Summer, Paul Newman sent moviegoers’ jaws straight to theater floors. His shocking exploit? Doing a scene in his underwear. During the Eisenhower era, men’s skivvies just weren’t appropriate for polite discussion over a dish of ambrosia Jell-O. So it’s not surprising that prudishness determined function and form in the 1955 Jockey ad at right.
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Up Close: Fashion’s Approachable Ambassador
On reality television shows, Joe Zee of Elle magazine has developed an unusual reputation: for being nice.

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