PPR + The Fancy.com “Empowering Imagination” x Parsons 2012 Finalists!

Last month, our partnership with PPR + TheFancy.com launched “Empowering Imagination” with twenty Seniors from the School of Fashion at Parsons. Each presented their work to a panel of fashion industry insiders, having just three minutes to pitch their design vision and ethos highlighting a key look from their Thesis Collections. The panel included Simon Collins [...]
Louis Vuitton x Joffrey x Parsons (PSOF 3000C Elective/ Fall 2012)

Are you interested in developing innovative, genre crossing 3D work with potential to be showcased in Feb 2013 to a public audience (maybe even during NYFW) ? Are you open to collaborating with others to produce something unlike anything ever seen before? In partnership with LV (Louis Vuitton) and Joffrey Ballet, the School of Fashion [...]
Congratulations to the 2012 CFDA Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to the five School of Fashion rising seniors recently recognized by the CFDA for their outstanding portfolio submissions. As the leading organization dedicated to nurturing and supporting designers of America, their achievement cannot be celebrated enough. Highly selective, the CFDA extends the invitation for submissions only from the leading U.S institutions and in May, [...]
Parsons, PPR, and thefancy.com Partner for “Empowering Imagination”

You can read the article here. Design competition will enable select students to earn internships within leading PPR brands and exposure on innovative social media platform, The Fancy NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 – Parsons The New School for Design, PPR, and The Fancy have announced the launch of a new partnership giving Parsons students [...]
CFDA/Diet Coke STAYEXTRAORDINARY Design Challenge

The CFDA has entered into a partnership with Diet Coke, who is interested identifying the graphic element that best supports their current STAYEXTRAORDINARY campaign. Limited-edition t-shirts featuring the winning design will be produced and available at Target stores this Fall. Please see the attached DESIGN BRIEF for full details on the STAYEXTRAORDINARY Design Challenge. Assignment: “Design an original “extraordinary” [...]
Student Photographers Needed to Shoot Parsons’ EOY Exhibition

Att: All Photography Students! We’re working on the Parsons The New School For Design’s End Of Year Exhibition. And we would like to capture behind the scene shots as well as actual event shots. The opening event is May 11th from 6-9pm. However the behind the scenes shots will mainly take place on April 24, [...]
Student Profile: The Winners of the 2012 Joe’s Blackbook Scholarship Competition

by Jane Kim, AAS Fashion Marketing Last month, Joe’s Blackbook, a recruiting and consulting firm, held their 2012 scholarship competition which was open to all juniors at top U.S design schools. Based on their creativity, originality, presentation, and strength of concept, designers and employers from leading industry companies judged their submissions in a two-stage process. [...]




