- Valerie Steele
Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003. - Michael Kors
Michael D. Kors (born 1959) is an American fashion designer. Kors was born on Long Island, New York and is half Jewish. His mother is Joan Krystosek Kors, a former model. Michael Kors is renowned for his classic, chic, and luxurious but sensible aesthetic on American sportswear and other clothing styles. One critic said, "His clothes have never lost that clarity, that versatility, that American, self-possessed, no-brainer chic. - Bill Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his expensive womenswear, notable for its tailoring and its innovative combinations of textures and patterns. He is the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). - Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and was awarded the Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in "Monster's Ball". She is the only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. - Naomi Sims
Naomi Sims (born March 30, 1949) is an American supermodel and businesswoman. Born in Oxford, Mississippi, Sims moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended high school. Because she was so tall for her age, she was ostracized by many of her classmates. Ms. Sims credits her upbringing as a Catholic for getting her through adolescence. Ms. Sims began college at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. - Norma Kamali
Norma Kamali is a New York-based fashion designer born in 1945. Kamali is credited with inventing many popular designs including the sleeping bag coat, a collection of styles created from actual silk parachutes, high heeled sneakers, and the popular packable, multi-use poly jersey clothing that can be worn in up to thirty variations per design. She also popularized the use of cotton jerseys in daywear in the 1980s. As a child, Norma Kamali wanted to be a painter, … - Joyce F. Brown
Dr. Joyce F. Brown, born 1947, has been the president of Fashion Institute of Technology since 1998. She is FIT's first African American and female president. Dr. Brown also serves as a director at Ralph Lauren Polo. Dr. Brown is also the Chief Executive Officer for the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries. She and her husband reside in New York City. - Kayne Gillaspie
Jonathan Kayne Gillaspie (born March 14, 1980) is an American fashion designer, specializing in beauty pageant gowns. He was a contestant on the third season of the Bravo reality series "Project Runway" after being rejected during second-season auditions. - Peter Emmerich
Peter Emmerich (born November 5,1973) an acclaimed Illustrator having an extensive relationship with The Walt Disney Co. Born in New York City, he was raised in Brooklyn and attended Xaverian High School, and then The Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon graduating from The Fashion Institute of Technology he began his career with The Walt Disney Co. as a character artist for Walt Disney Consumer Products. - Amber Lee Ettinger
Originally from Hazleton Pennsylvania, Amber Lee Ettinger moved around a lot as a child because her dad was in the military, so technically you can call her an Army Brat! Upon graduating from high school she moved to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her major was Fashion Design, specializing in Intimate Apparel. "FIT was such a great experience for me, I learned so much and at the same time it opened so many doors for me. - Fonzworth Bentley
Fonzworth Bentley (b. February 13, 1974) formerly known as Farnsworth Bentley, is a hip hop artist, entertainer, and fashion designer, best known for being a manservant to American celebrity Sean "Diddy" Combs. Bentley now markets his own line of umbrellas. - Laura Dahl
Laura Dahl (born 1974) is an American fashion designer. A native of Las Vegas, NV, she attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ and continued her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Before starting her own line, Dahl worked in the fashion houses of Cynthia Rowley, Anne Bowen, and Catherine Malandrino. In 2003 Dahl launched her first label called Wifebeader by Laura Dahl which focused on embellished tops. - Nikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee is a Korean-born, New York City-based artist, photographer, and filmmaker, born in 1970. She moved to New York in 1996 and attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. She earned her M.A. in photography at New York University in 1998. Lee's most noted work, "Projects" (1997-2001), begun while still in school, depicts her in snapshot photographs, in which she poses with various ethnic and social groups, including drag queens, punks, swing dancers, … - Luis Antonio
Luis Antonio (born approx. in 1966) is a famous Puerto Rican fashion designer and businessman. Antonio launched his first collection in 1983, and two years later, he moved to New York, where he attended the "Fashion Institute of Technology", where he studied fashion design. During the 1990s, his work went through a boom, and he became a popular designer in Puerto Rico, Latin America, Europe and the United States. He was hired by such companies as Pepsi, Budweiser, … - Donald Brooks
Donald Brooks (January 9, 1928 - August 1, 2005) was an American fashion designer. Born Donald Marc Blumberg in New Haven, Connecticut, Brooks attended Syracuse University followed by the Yale School of Drama, where he first decided to become a costume and clothing designer. He studied design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and then the Parsons School of Design in New York. - Ivy Supersonic
Ivy Supersonic (Born "Ivy Silberstein" in 1967) is a New York fashion designer, entertainer, publicist, promoter, event planner, and animated character designer. She is the daughter of Jerome Silberstein, co-founder of Silberstein, Awad & Miklos. - Lily Chin
Lily M. Chin, born in 1961, is a crochet and knitware designer. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and Queens College, City University of New York and lives in New York City. She is perhaps best known outside the crochet design world for crocheting an entire sweater for David Letterman in 40 minutes during an appearance on his show.. Some debate her "World's Fastest Crocheter" title, since she never held the title through a recognized organization, … - Mel Byars
Mel Byars (b. Columbia, South Carolina, September 1, 1938), American design historian Byars studied journalism in the 1950s in his native South Carolina. He subsequently settled in New York City and eventually became active as an art director or creative director for a number of publishers, such as Prentice-Hall and McGraw-Hill, and for advertising agencies, including Leber Katz Partners (subsumed into Foote, Cone & Belding, the world's second oldest advertising agency, … - Hazel Bishop
Hazel Gladys Bishop (1906-1998) was a chemist and the founder of the cosmetics company Hazel Bishop, Inc. In 1950 she invented "lasting lipstick", this product was the first of the "non-smear, long lating" type. Born on August 17 1906 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Sales by Hazel Bishop Inc. of its lipstick increased from $49,527 in 1950 to $10,100,682 in 1953. - Adeline André
Adeline André is a French fashion designer and the head of one of the ten haute couture design houses in Paris. She was born in Bangui, French Equatorial Africa and studied at the School of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture. After her graduation in 1970 she entered the House of Christian Dior as an assistant for Haute Couture collections, working with Marc Bohan. In 1981 she formed her own designer house "Adeline André". - Mary Brooks Picken
Mary Brooks Picken was an influential American author of numerous books on needlework, sewing, and textile arts. Born in Aug. 6 1886, she attended the Women's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. A fashion expert and author, Picken was an authority on dress, fabric, design, and sewing. She taught "Economics of Fashion" at Columbia University and was one of the five founding directors of the Costume Institute. - Claudia Meyer
Claudia Meyer Claudia Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1961 and has lived and worked in Paris and Luzern as an independent artist since 1989.She trained as a graphic designer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Luzern from 1977 to 1982. She then spent a year in Stuttgart, Germany where she worked as a graphic artist and made the acquaintance of Anton Stankowski, in whose studio she was able to work with. - Lee Anne Wong
Lee Anne Wong is an American chef and was one of the last four contestants on the first season of Bravo's reality show, Top Chef. She is currently the food consultant for season three of Top Chef, where her duties include sourcing and styling the ingredients for the various challenges. She also blogs about the show for Bravo as well as doing a webcast, … - Priscilla Herdman
Priscilla Herdman is an American folk singer. Although she has written songs, she is notable chiefly for her interpretations of other artists' work. Born in Eastchester, New York in 1948, she attended the University of Iowa, finishing her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. While working in the fashion industry, she began to play in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village and the church basements of the Upper West Side, and toured in Europe. - Fran Landesman
Fran Landesman (b. 1927) is an American lyricist and poet. Landesman was born Frances Deitsch on October 21 1927 in New York City. Her father was a dress manufacturer, her mother was a journalist; she has one brother, Sam. She was educated at private schools, then at Temple University, Philadelphia, and finally at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her first career was in the fashion industry in New York, where she met writer Jay Landesman, … - Mich Dulce
Mich Dulce (born Michelle Dianne Lopez Dulce on May 8, 1981) is a Filipina fashion designer and band vocalist. Dulce was one of the 14 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition. She was the first forced evicted housemate on Day 21 due to an anxiety attack and was rushed to the Philippine Heart Center. Prior to entering the Pinoy Big Brother house, she was a well known fashion designer which targets the elite young people. - Elena Goode
Elena Goode (born in New York City on August 22, 1982) is an American actress, and former model who most recently starred on the daytime soap opera "As The World Turns". Elena joined the cast on February 2, 2006, playing Jade Taylor. She also had a small role in the boxing movie Undefeated as the character Model #1. Elena, 24, attended and graduated from the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. While a student there, she took part in many productions, … - Gregory Gale
Gregory Gale is a New York-based costume designer. Gale is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and is well known for his character-driven designs. In 2007 Gale won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Costume Design for his work on "The Voysey Inheritance." He was also nominated that same year for his work on "The Milliner." - Diana Spektor
Diana Spektor (born April 28th, 1979 -) has always had a talent for art and design. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, she immigrated to the United States in 1989. At the age of 14, Diana enrolled in the High School of Fashion Industries, where she first had the opportunity to hone her professional skills as a designer. She later attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she earned degrees in both Fashion and Graphic Design. Having worked at a wide range of companies, … - Lawrence S. Phillips
Lawrence S. Phillips (born circa 1927) is an American businessman who was chairman of Phillips-Van Heusen until 1995. Phillips graduated from Princeton University. He is on the boards of Petsmart and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He is founder and chairman of American Jewish World Service. His political activity earned him a place on the master list of Nixon political opponents. - Erica Toriello
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Well I am going through a divorce right now. Ha yep. Finally had enough lol. - Lucille A. Roussin
Lucille A. Roussin is the founder and director of the Holocaust Restitution Claims Practicum at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where she teaches a seminar, Remedies for Wartime Confiscation. She also teaches a course on "Art, the Law and Professional Ethics" at the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. - Lis Bothwell
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