HAVE A VOICE, SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES AND BE NOTICED!! The Parsons 560 Blog is seeking creative student insights, writings, work and experiences. Whether it’s an event you attended, work inside or outside class or a personal insight, 560 blog is giving the students a space to showcase this. The 560 Blog is a great way [...]

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced the nominees, honorees and host for the 2012 CFDA Fashion Awards on March 14, 2012, with CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg. The nominees for womenswear designer of the year, the biggest prize, are Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row, Jack McCollough (Alumni) and Lazaro Hernandez [...]

Take a listen to the live conversation with mega-talented designer Christian Siriano, interviewed by Parsons’ School of Fashion instructor, Michelle Alleyne. He spills the beans during an in-store event on Monday, Sept 27th about his dual Payless shoe and handbag collections (Christian Siriano for Payless – for everyday styling, and Christian Siriano for Payless Gold [...]

This summer, Interior Design Magazine, Veranda, approached Parsons Fashion Design Faculty member and Construction Coordinator Julia Poteat with a project idea involving her summer fashion design students. Couture interior design fabrics were donated, and the resulting 18th century inspired garments were created on dress forms.  Congratulations to the four participating students, for their inspirational work [...]

Congratulations to a 2010 Parsons School of Fashion graduate, for having her designs noticed by none other than singer and fashion trendsetter, Beyonce Knowles. For Beyonce’s newest album, “4″ out in stores less than a month, Lleah Rae was tapped to provide one of her designs for the album’s magazine-style photo spread.  Congratulations to Lleah, [...]

This year, as part of the Fifth Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards, we are proud to announce that three current Parsons students are in the competition. Be sure to vote for your favorite and note these rising stars. Mengdi Wu, Learn more about her on the InStyle page here. Her bag is already making waves [...]

The School of Fashion’s newly launched MFA program recently received coverage in the international publication, Financial Times. There are two articles on this link, so be sure to scroll to the bottom to see both. It provides great insight into the combination of business, and law in studying fashion. Enjoy reading them and let us [...]

Last week, the New York Times Style section published this article, on the Asian-American fashion designers rising to the top. We are lucky to have so many come through the ranks of Parsons School of Fashion and look forward to seeing their Spring 2011 collections this week at New York Fashion Week.

This weekend The New York Times wrote about an exciting collaboration between Parsons and Loomstate, where Loomstate is partnering with an elective course, Zero Waste Garment. There are a couple of spaces left in the course so get in quickly if you would like to take part. The course details are: Zero Waste Garment – [...]

Students in professor Kathryn Simon’s fashion history class, took on the challenge of tracking the unique trend: slashing. Read about the project and their findings in this recent NY Times article.