A collaboration with MFA Fashion Design and Society students at Pitti Filati, Florence, July 2011 During the summer Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia presented an installation of work by three students from the MFA Fashion Design and Society. A collaboration of innovation and heritage, the exhibition featured 12 garments that express the quality and value of [...]

In conjunction with the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a competition for fashion design graduate students this spring in honor of the artist’s lifelong dedication to supporting students and emerging talent in the field. In recognition of Alexander McQueen’s pivotal role in shaping fashion through [...]

In 2011 a collaboration began between Elisa van Joolen and Ruby Hoette who have a common interest in reshaping ideas around clothing, time and space. Their recent research evolved around the idea of the raising and dropping of hemlines being a metaphor for the fluctuations and complexity in the current fashion system. The silent ‘hemline’ [...]

The fashion film made by MFA Design and Society student Aina Hussain along with research and illustrations have been selected to be exhibited as part of the exhibit called: ‘ÖÖ: was it a dream?’, during the London Design Festival in September 2011. ÖÖ, or ‘night’ in Estonian, is a pop-up gallery and concept store showing [...]

During the past months and continuing up to New York Fashion Week September 2011, many students from the MFA Fashion Design and Society have been interning at various companies in New York including Diane von Furstenberg Calvin Klein Marc Jacobs Peter Som Cynthia Rowley Aina Hussain interned at DVF (Diane Von Furstenberg), where her illustrations [...]

Swarovski Elements invites Parsons The New School For Design’s AAS & BFA 2009, 2010, & 2011  alumni to be a part of their Autumn/Winter 2012/13 Accessory/Jewelry Design Competition. You will be eligible to submit sketches of jewelry and/or accessories pieces only, interpreting the Swarovski Elements trends. There will be an information session at the Swarovski [...]

David LaChapelle is producing a 70 minute live theatrical dance/music and art show in the East Village at Theatre 80 – 80 Saint Marks Place, called Transcending Form for which he would like to offer the New School Community free tickets on Wednesday June 15th at 8pm. Transcending Form is a powerful modern dance choreographed [...]

Enter the American Batik Design Competition and win $27,000 in cash prizes and a two week Batik tour to Indonesia.  For details visit http://americanbatik.embassyofindonesia.org/ Submit your design before June 25 for a bigger chance to win as well the opportunity to be exhibited at the Indonesian Festival in Washington DC, July 9. Final deadline to [...]

As a faculty I feel that sometimes classes start to blur from semester to semester and it’s only the students and their work that makes them exciting and worth while. This past semester though I was honored to be a part of a class that became thrilling from the very first moment. The collaboration between [...]

Written by: Joel Harding In the Fashion student’s junior year, one is inundated with design competitions. Each contest has different requirements and potential prizes, some include trips to Europe, and others offer scholarships. The hand-bag design competition with Coach was a new one this spring, which offered BFA, and AAS students in their junior or [...]