Introducing the new Professor in Fashionable Technology
Parsons, School of Fashion would like to welcome Sabine Seymour as a full time faculty member as of January 2010. Sabine focuses on fashionable technology and the intertwining of aesthetics and function in design and technology. Having introduced the course ‘Fashionable Technology’ at Parsons The New School for Design in New York in 2001, she [...]
Sustainability Professor Joins the Fashion School
Commencing in January 2010, Timo Rissanen joined Parsons The New School for Design as Assistant Professor in Fashion Design and Sustainability. His previous position was Lecturer in Fashion Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he taught fashion design for seven years. From 2001 to 2004 he owned and designed for Usvsu, a [...]
Students compete for Chinese sportswear contest
Collaboration was their key to success as fashion design and marketing students presented men’s and women’s sportswear concepts to top Chinese sports brand Li Ning this past fall. The competition, led by design instructor Julia Poteat and marketing instructor James Mendolia, gave students the chance to create an “East meets West Fusion” for the future [...]
LVMH contest: Art of Craftmanship Revisted
“The Art of Craftmanship Revisted: New York” brings together Parsons students with New York City artisans. Through an extensive collaboration of students in MFA: Design & Technology, MA: Hist. Decorative Arts & Design, BFA: Fashion Design, Communication Design, Product Design, Illustration, Fine Arts, Integrated Design, BBA: Design & Management, BS: Environmental Science and AAS: Fashion [...]
Party Dresses at Lord & Taylor
When we say “You never leave Parsons” we mean it! On September 9th, 2009, representatives from Lord and Taylor gave a presentation to ‘07, 08, & 09 alumni who were challenged re-design the party dress. Over fifty designers submitted sketches and these were narrowed down to ten finalists: Gigi Burris, Eun Young Sarah Choi, Nikki [...]
AAS Fashion Design Midseason Preview 2009
The 2009 Parsons School of Fashion, AAS Fashion Design MidSeason Preview. Parsons The New School for Design premiered Reuse, Recycle, Recontruct,” its installation of ecologically and socially conscious work by fashion design students in its AAS Fashion Design program, Thursday December 18, 2009. Students explored zero-waste production; the deconstruction and reconstruction of discarded garments, and [...]
