Given the conversation around diversity that has ignited the fashion industry over the past several years, an exhibition examining race and fashion might seem overdue. It took a professor from Parsons who since 2016 has been teaching an elective class entitled “Fashion and Race” at at the school to deliver it. “Fashion and Race: Deconstructing...
Nov 2, 2018
The tectonic plates of the fashion industry have shifted radically over the past five years, the status quo disrupted by see-now-buy-now, the demand for inclusivity, environmentalism, and labor abuse scandals. Graduate fashion shows, those glamorous finales to the hard slog of completing BFA and MFA programs, which are covered enthusiastically...
Oct 28, 2018
Parsons is accustomed to steering the course of fashion––its Masters program was the first in the U.S. when it enrolled Generation 1 in 2010––and Generation 7’s group showcased in Friday’s show whose front row included Donna Karan, donor of the initial endowment to help spearhead the program, did not disappoint. From the preview event held in...
Sep 9, 2018
Parsons 2018 full fashion show by various designers. Source: FF Chanel, YouTube.
Aug 27, 2018
In its fourth year, PROJECT X Parsons––Next in Class presents four recent graduates with menswear and dual-gender collections from the school’s BFA and MFA programs at the menswear trade show held at Manhattan’s Javits Center. Designed to give the designers exposure to retailers, buyers and e-commerce vendors, it also grants them insight into...
Jul 23, 2018
10 weeks ago an electrical fire in Parsons School of Design’s W 13th St location caused the displacement of the entire MFA Fashion Design & Society department. Within a week, the program director, Shelley Fox, and associate director, Joff Moolhuizen, had rehoused the program inside Brooklyn’s Industry City. For the show must always go on. Indeed...
Jun 7, 2018
Parsons Festival is a 3-day annual event open to the public which showcases the graduating fashion students––all 500 of them this year, their work curated by theme over 3 floors of the school. Portfolios sit next to samples of textile development or custom made shoes, jewelry, sunglasses, handbags. The sheer magnitude of the student creativity...
May 17, 2018
Parsons Festival 2018 is a 3-day exhibition unveiling nearly 500 student designers and occupying 3 floors of the school. The work has been curated by theme through 20 rooms and provides a preview of some of the collections which will be shown at the annual star-studded benefit next Monday with honorees in attendance, Solange Knowles, Marci...
The value of education has never been more under the microscope with fashion education booming, tuition sky-high, and more fashion programs and fashion graduates entering the marketplace than ever before yet no corresponding marked increase in jobs. The spike in interest among young people towards a fashion career, known as the “Project Runway...
Nov 22, 2017
Three womenswear graduates from Parsons 2017 BFA group have been awarded the opportunity to present and talk about their collections with retailers and exhibitors attending Coterie, the three-day trade fair which began on Sunday in the Javits Center. Knitwear designer Panisa Busayanont’s thesis collection was born from studying the lifespan of...
Sep 18, 2017
