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Student Week–IBO Knitting Class

Stoll Fashion & Technology Center (www.stoll.com) is holding IBO intensive knitting courses on Jan 18th through 21st from 9am-5pm at 250 W 39th Street, ground floor at special student rate $400. To register and for more information email Alin@stollamerica.com

Let’s Bring Back

By Ann Frank Let’s Bring Back…America’s Once-Great Yet Forgotten Fashion Designers Soho House, New York and The Huffington Post recently hosted a ‘forgotten fashion’ cocktail party celebrating the release of Lesley M. M. Blume’s new book, Let’s Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By. Ms. [...]

Keep Textiles out of Landfills

The Fashion School’s Sustainability Club is pleased to announce our Recycle Your Clothing drive, taking place starting today 12/10 through next Friday, 12/17/10.  A large bin is in the lobby of 560 Seventh Avenue. Please be sure to clean out your closets, as we can accept donations such as:  clothing, pairs of shoes, belts, bags, [...]

The World of Gloria Vanderbilt

The Museum of the City of New York is extending their member discount to Parsons’ community for their upcoming program with Gloria Vanderbilt and Wendy Goodman Thursday, December 16, 6:30 PM The World of Gloria Vanderbilt Museum of the City of New York     1220 5th Avenue at 103rd Street     New York, NY 10029 www.mcny.org   [...]

WGSN & Parsons Color Panel

In partnership with WGSN, Parsons The New School for Design is pleased to announce our Panel Discussion on Tuesday, December 14th. Steven Faerm, Director of the BFA Fashion Design program joins Pantone, WGSN and fashion designer Chris Benz to discuss the future of color and trends. We are holding aside a limited number of tickets [...]

WGSN & Parsons Color Panel

In partnership with WGSN, Parsons The New School for Design is pleased to announce our Panel Discussion on Tuesday, December 14th. Steven Faerm, Director of the BFA Fashion Design program joins Pantone, WGSN and fashion designer Chris Benz to discuss the future of color and trends. We are holding aside a limited number of tickets [...]

Fashion in Film: The 10th Victim

FASHION IN FILM: MELODRAMA The 10th Victim (Dir. Elio Petri, 1965) Introduced by Evan Calder Williams December 7, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 pm Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. Evan Calder Williams, author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and scholarly essays on film, will introduce Elio Petri’s prophetic sci-fi fantasia starring Ursula Andress and Marcello [...]

AIGA Talk Dec 2 Featuring Cynthia Rowley

On Thursday, December 2, join AIGA/NY and Cynthia Rowley as we journey through her exciting multi-disciplinary practice from women’s wear to wetsuits, handbags to hammers, dishes to diapers, books to beach cruisers. Cynthia Rowley inspires and delights editors, retailers, and fashionistas alike. Beyond the intellectual, physical and emotional demands of assembling a line each season, [...]

Mark Wigley: Lecture and Conversation with Joel Towers

MARK WIGLEY: Lecture and conversation with JOEL TOWERS DESIGN AND EXISTENTIAL RISK LECTURE SERIES Thursday, December 2, 2010 6:00 – 8:30 pm Parsons The New School for Design Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue [at 13th street], NYC Free and open to the public; seating limited Design and Existential Risk is a series of conversations with [...]

Keanan Duffty Talks About the Roots of Rebel Style

Trace the roots of Rebel Style with designer and author Keanan Duffty at this visual talk exploring how fashionable music and “anti-fashion” icons, like David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and Lady Gaga, have inspired fashion, film, contemporary art and beyond. Wednesday, December 1, 2010 6:00-7:30PM Fashion School Auditorium 560 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor