For the past 7 years, the Two Ten Footwear Foundation has been awarding Footwear Design Scholarships to students interested in pursuing a career in footwear design.  The program has had great success and many of the scholars have gone on pursue rewarding careers in the footwear industry. If you are a design student with a [...]

Samantha Sleeper, BFA Alumni, graced the cover of WWD yesterday. Pages 6-9 of the publication covered other alumni, wow. Be sure to stay tuned for an even bigger follow up story on Samantha next week.

Thursday April 29, 6:00pm at Macy’s Herald Square – Women’s on 3 Ellen Tracy and Macy’s challenged design students from Parsons The New School for Design to re-invent the iconic white shirt.  Join them to welcome the winner of this challenge, 4 runner ups, and be among the first to purchase these winning designs! Free [...]

The name Sophie Gimbel should be familiar to anyone in the New School University community as it is Gimbel, together with her husband, Adam Gimbel, former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, whose names adorn the University’s Design Library. To the general public though, Gimbel’s name is not so recognizable, and her contributions to American fashion, [...]

I had the good fortune to reconnect with Parsons Alumnae Jasmin Santanen, Parisian based designer, in March.  We met two years ago in Paris. Her collections keep getting more beautiful, and her warm spirit and creativity are inflected into each piece. The presentation of Fall 2010 received incredible reviews.  “Illustrious Seduction” is enough to seduce [...]

Last week has been filled with the stressful and exciting fashion design senior thesis collection previews. A panel of judges reviews each student collection and gives feedback to the young and talented designers. In the next few posts I’ll give you some highlights of the past week. Monday morning the panel started with the quirky [...]

The winners of the 2nd Annual Henri Bendel / Parson’s Handbag design contest: CONGRATULATIONS TO: 1st prize went to Benyam Assefa 1st runner-up went to Seung Yeon Jee 2nd runner-up Jennie Han

Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory and MA Fashion Studies present FASHION IN FILM – New York City: April 6-27, 2010 All screenings in Tishman Auditorium The New School, 66 West 12th Street 7:30–9:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. April 6 ANNIE HALL Dir. Woody Allen, 1977 Introduced by JUDITH [...]

Congratulations to: Lauren Burnet and Carmen Chen Wu,whose projects have been selected to represent Parsons’ for the CFDA Geoffrey Beene scholarship. In addition, we’d like to give honorable mentions to the following runners up: Katty Hoelck Betty Shuyue Jiang Paige Kettering Bora Kim Yuen Chi Lo Paul Negron Ashley Owens Nancy Park Gyuhyeon (Kathy) Sow

Parsons The New School for Design was honored to be invited once again by the Hong Kong Fur Federation to attend the Trade Show and Gala this year. This partnership is unique for us in that it provides two students with a rare opportunity to work directly with factories to see their designs come to [...]