As an exciting conclusion to New York Fashion Week, students from Parsons The New School for Design, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Joffrey Ballet School’s Jazz and Contemporary Program performed Reconstruction 3.0: Life is a Journey, an evening of live performances featuring original music, dance and fashion inspired by Louis [...]

PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN AND LOUIS VUITTON NORTH AMERICA INVITE YOU TO EXPERIENCE AN AFTERNOON OF DANCE, MUSIC AND FASHION: RECONSTRUCTION 3.0 “LIFE IS A JOURNEY” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013 Live Performance: 1:00-2:00 p.m Manhattan Movement and Arts Center 248 West 60th Street, New York City (Amsterdam and West End Avenue) RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/LV-Reconstruction-Afternoon [...]

ATTENTION – CHANGE OF PROGRAM DUE TO IMPEDING BAD WEATHER IN NEW YORK CITY. THE FASHION COLLOQUIA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY TODAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013. WE WILL ONLY BE IN THE 55 WEST 13TH STREET BUILDING. THE GUIDED TOUR OF THE SOPHIE GIMBEL EXHIBITION IS CANCELLED. THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN THROUGH FEBRUARY 12, [...]

On Thursday October 11 Dr Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion delivered the lecture Alternative Fashion Systems as part of the Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture series. The series was introduced by Alison Mears, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, and Kate was introduced by [...]

Join us in Paris this October!

Fiona Diefffenbacher, author of the forthcoming AVA book Fashion Process, has just returned from the Italian session of the Fashion Colloquia, organised in collaboration with the London College of Fashion, Domus Academy, Institut Francais de la Mode and Parsons The New School for Design In New York. The schools are partnering on this series, which [...]

CETI (European Centre for Innovative Textiles) is launching the FUTUROTEXTILES AWARDS, the First International Competition dedicated to Innovative Textiles and Design. A research centre of international calibre and industrial excellence in the field of Advanced Textile Materials and New Flexible Materials, CETI is dedicated to innovation, prototyping and technological development. CETI is the flagship project [...]

We would like to invite students to two workshops focusing on intelligent materials and computational fashion. Parsons, New York, February 25 – 26, 2012, 9AM – 6PM The call for participation for the workshop at Parsons ends on February 13, 2012. Please submit a biography, links to your portfolio, and a description of your skills [...]

If you are interested to apply, the link is pasted here for your convenience.

The weekend of October 28-30 the Global Sustainability Jam will take place around the world. Here in New York City, Parsons and more specifically, the Parsons Desis Lab, is very much involved. Contact Cameron Tonkinwise (details at the NYC link above) if you want to be involved. You should!