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Bunka Fashion College is Japan's first fashion school. Originally founded in 1919 as a small dressmaking school, it was approved as the first dressmaking school in Japan in 1923. It is globally considered one of the most prestigious fashion schools in Asia and has produced many renowned designers including Kenzo Takada, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, and more.

Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.

"One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937). She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later."

"Bernardine Szold-Fritz, née Bernardine Sholes, was born August 14, 1896 in Peoria, Illinois. She established the International Art Theater in Shanghai, China and was a Paris correspondent for the The New Yorker before establishing herself as a hostess in Hollywood. She married multiple times, including marriages to Otto K. Liveright on November 6, 1922 and Chester Fritz on June 18, 1929. Bernardine Szold-Fritz died February 15, 1982 in Los Angeles, California."

"Hedda Hopper (1890-1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist."

Eric Gaskins was born in 1958 in Germany and grew up in Groton, Massachusetts. He attended Lawrence Academy and graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in fine arts. He was trained in Paris by Hubert Givenchy before returning to the United States where he launched his own label in New York in 1987. He designed for Koos Van den Akker, Bob Evans, and Scott Barrie before starting his own label. His designs have been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Spy, Bazaar, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Palm Beach Illustrated. Other significant editorial coverage included such magazines and television programs as Self, New Woman, Elle, Essence and Entertainment Tonight. His celebrity clients include Salma Hayek, Melanie Griffith, Vanessa Williams, Mariah Carey, Geena Davis, Maria Shriver, Jada Pinkett, Jennifer Lopez, Allison Janney, Kim Cattrall, Kathy Bates and Goldie Hawn. He worked as a designer for 22 years before closing his business in 2009 to reveal he had been blogging under the pseudonym Fluff Chance for the blog The Emperor's Old Clothes.

Arthur Winters was a former professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founder of the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department. He is an educator and author, specializing in strategic brand management, planning, and creative execution.

"Arthur was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx and New Rochelle. He volunteered for military service at the age of 17 and served as a US Navy fighter pilot in WWII, flying the Hellcat on carriers in the Pacific. After New Rochelle HS, he was sent for Navy training to Williams College (class of 1946) graduating with a BA in economics after the war in 1948. He continued his education at Pace University (MBA) and Temple University (EdD).

"Pursuing his career in advertising, he started his own agency in the Empire State Building, with many fashion accounts. From there he was asked to teach at The Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of NY. He became the founding chairman of the department of Advertising and Marketing Communications. He was a beloved leader and supporter of his faculty and students. He wrote many text and industry books and videos, named and launched many brands like Isotoner Gloves; was an early creator of the brand-marketing concept. He and his wife, Prof. Peggy Winters, were partners in their TFI Geomarketing consulting firm. They co-wrote Blogs and many books, conducted international seminars and consulted in integrated and experiential marketing communications. They met at FIT and completed their career team-teaching in the International Affairs and Professional Studies Programs at FIT. They taught/worked in over a dozen countries."

Winters passed away on February 6, 2024 at the age of 98.

Vally Wieselthier (Valerie Wielsethier) was born in 1895 in Vienna, Austria. She started studying at the Vienna School for Applied Arts in 1914, focusing on painting but later switching to the architecture class of Josef Hoffman. In 1917, she attended the ceramics workshop headed by Michael Powolny. In 1917. Wieselthier joined the newly opened ceramics workshop of the Wiener Werkstätte, working under Hoffman and artistic director Dagobert Peche. Her work is characterized by playful and humorous designs combined with the use of traditional forms and free use of materials. She also designed in other mediums, such as textiles and glass. From 1922 to 1927 she had her own workshop in Vienna. Her ceramic sculptures were represented at the 1925 “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris. In 1927 she returned to the Wiener Werkstätte to head its ceramics workshop. She spent 18 months in New York City between 1927 and 1928 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1932, where she created work for the Contempora Group (collaborating with Paul Poiret) and Sebring Pottery Company.

Nicole Emmerich Teweles was a junior editor of Tobé Report in the late 1940s, early 1950s.

Lesley Frowick is the niece of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick who was know professionally as Halston. She is the Halston Archives, the author of Halston: Inventing American Fashion (Rizzoli, 2014) and the executive producer of the documentary Halston: The Original Fashion Mogul produced by Frederic Tcheng. She lives and works as a real estate agent in New Braunfels, Texas.

Karl Gernot Kuehn is an internationally known photographer and scholar who teaches history of photography at California State Northridge and UCL. German born, Gernot Kuehn studied at USC and California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), taking cinema and American studies courses (1960-1964), and later received a BA in art (1990) and a MA in art history (1992) from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). He worked as a film editor for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from 1964 to 1969, after which he continued working as a freelance editor. From 1980 to 1997 he taught creative photography and the history of photography at Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design, UCLA , and CSUN.

Academic Affairs includes the Schools of Art & Design, Business & Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Graduate Studies; and the Center for Continuing & Professional Studies. The four schools offer 48 degree programs: 15 associate's degrees; 26 bachelor's degrees; and seven master's degrees. The School of Liberal Arts also offers 27 minors, while the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies awards 12 different credit certificates.

The Academic Services departments include the Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs, International Programs, the Gladys Marcus Library, and Faculty and Academic Program Support.

The Faculty and Academic Support units include Faculty Services, the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Online Learning and Academic Technologies, Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Academic Advising, Academic Skills Tutoring, Career and Internship Services, Testing/Placement Services, and the Writing and Speaking Studio.

Ellen Chester Ostrower worked as a copywriter for B. Altman in the 1960s.

"Robert Lamont Green, a men's fashion editor, consultant and lecturer who was the fashion director of Playboy magazine for more than 20 years, has died at age 79. ... Mr. Green was a familiar figure in the New York fashion world of the 1960s and '70s. Called Robert L. by his friends and associates, he was widely known for his wit, his skills as a raconteur and his many parties. At Playboy, from 1958 to 1975, he strengthened the magazine's fashion coverage and increased its presence in the fashion world by organizing special events and founding the Caswell-Massey Awards, which later became Playboy's Creative Men's Wear Awards. ... He occasionally appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show," "The Mike Douglas Show," "Tonight" show and "Today" show. He also wrote a book, "Live With Style," as well as articles for Architectural Digest and other publications. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles and became a fashion consultant to the TV and film industries. After graduating from Michigan State University, Mr. Green worked as a child psychologist until he served in the Army during World War II. Settling in Washington after his discharge, he started a public relations agency and became the host of a CBS radio program dealing with musical theater." Chicago Tribune, Obituary, 1997

Robert Green made a considerable contribution to the Oral History Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Gladys Marcus Library throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s."

"Helena Rubinstein, whose name and accomplishments are legendary, was a beauty authority, industrial pioneer, patron of the arts, philanthropist, and inveterate collector. The woman who helped to shape the way generations of women see themselves was born in Poland in 1871. At the age of 18, she immigrated to Melbourne, Australia, and at the age of 20 began her cosmetics business with a single product, a simple face cream. At a time when career opportunities for women were virtually nonexistent, Helena Rubinstein created a successful business enterprise, which expanded from Melbourne to London in 1902, to Paris in 1906, and to New York in 1912. The international cosmetics empire she created earned her a reputation as one of the world's most successful businesswomen.

As the business grew, so did Helena Rubinstein's interest in the arts. She accumulated significant collections of African sculpture, modern paintings and sculpture, Oriental and Oceanic art, and Egyptian antiquities. Of daring and eclectic taste, she delighted in discovery and in cultivating the avant-garde. She was a friend and patron of many artists who are recognized today as the foremost in the world. Twenty-seven portraits of her were painted by well-known artists and have been exhibited at major museums throughout the United States and Europe. Some of these portraits are represented here on the Foundation's website.

Helena Rubinstein started the [Helena Rubinstein] Foundation in 1953, in affirmation of a principle she often expressed: "My fortune comes from women and should benefit them and their children, to better their quality of life." Convinced that education was vital to career development, she made scholarship grants to encourage young women to undertake higher education and to pursue nontraditional careers.

The Foundation was a major beneficiary of Helena Rubinstein's legacy when she died in 1965 at the age of 94. Its Directors have further developed and broadened the philanthropic concepts she initiated and, sensitive to the changing needs of society, continue to support new and forward-looking programs. In carrying out her mandate, the Foundation is a living tribute to the achievements, generosity, and vision of its founder."

"Andrew Madan Ramroop OBE was born in Maingot Village, Trinidad and Tobago. He has always been naturally creative and knew very early that he wanted to become a tailor. He owns bespoke tailors Maurice Sedwell and was the first tailor to be made a Visiting Professor of the London Institute.

"He also knew very early that the best tailors in the world worked on Savile Row and this became his dream. One that has been achieved. Despite facing adversity including isolation, poverty, discrimination, and desperate homesickness in the early days, he has now reached the highest levels of achievement in the field of tailoring.

"In 2001 he was awarded the title of Visiting Professor of the London Institute in recognition of his distinction in the field of tailoring. The University of the Arts, London conferred Andrew Madan Ramroop with an honorary professorship in 2005: In 2005 he was honoured by his home country with the nation’s second highest civilian award the Chaconia Medal Gold: Hon. President of the Government of Trinidad & Tobago for Distinction in Tailoring and Business. In 2007 he won the coveted UK National Training Award (individual category). To crown off his achievements Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded him with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year’s Honours for distinction in the field of tailoring and training.

"He joined Maurice Sedwell Ltd. in 1974 as an assistant cutter to Mr. Sedwell. At this company, Andrew’s talent blossomed and clients often asked for his personal attention. In 1988, he purchased ninety percent of Maurice Sedwell Ltd. Since then he has transformed the business into highly successful bespoke tailoring – with a reputation for excellence in handcraft bespoke tailored menswear. His clients have included royalty (Princess Diana), cabinet ministers, movie stars (including Charles Gray, Tony Curtis, Samuel L. Jackson), celebrity entertainers (including Kelly Rowland, Mike Skinner (who raps in the Streets Album “The hardest way to make an easy living” about having a suit made by Maurice Sedwell), sporting heroes (Mark Ramprakash, Brian Lara and Robin Van Persie) and outstanding captains of industry around the globe. To date the company have tailored suits for customers in sixty countries.

"Another significant achievement is his establishment of the Savile Row Academy training institute as he wishes to pass on the centuries-old handcraft bespoke tailoring techniques of Savile Row to future generations, creating employment opportunities. The Academy opened its doors to business from Maurice Sedwell’s premises in January 2008 and today provides aspiring bespoke tailors with high quality practical training delivered by its master tailors. After eighteen months, these graduates are ready to work at tailoring establishments around the world, including on Savile Row."

Andrew Madan Ramroop OBE was born in Maingot Village, Trinidad and Tobago. He has always been naturally creative and knew very early that he wanted to become a tailor. He owns bespoke tailors Maurice Sedwell and was the first tailor to be made a Visiting Professor of the London Institute.

He also knew very early that the best tailors in the world worked on Savile Row and this became his dream. One that has been achieved. Despite facing adversity including isolation, poverty, discrimination, and desperate homesickness in the early days, he has now reached the highest levels of achievement in the field of tailoring.

In 2001 he was awarded the title of Visiting Professor of the London Institute in recognition of his distinction in the field of tailoring. The University of the Arts, London conferred Andrew Madan Ramroop with an honorary professorship in 2005: In 2005 he was honoured by his home country with the nation’s second highest civilian award the Chaconia Medal Gold: Hon. President of the Government of Trinidad & Tobago for Distinction in Tailoring and Business. In 2007 he won the coveted UK National Training Award (individual category). To crown off his achievements Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded him with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year’s Honours for distinction in the field of tailoring and training.

He joined Maurice Sedwell Ltd. in 1974 as an assistant cutter to Mr. Sedwell. At this company, Andrew’s talent blossomed and clients often asked for his personal attention. In 1988, he purchased ninety percent of Maurice Sedwell Ltd. Since then he has transformed the business into highly successful bespoke tailoring – with a reputation for excellence in handcraft bespoke tailored menswear. His clients have included royalty (Princess Diana), cabinet ministers, movie stars (including Charles Gray, Tony Curtis, Samuel L. Jackson), celebrity entertainers (including Kelly Rowland, Mike Skinner (who raps in the Streets Album “The hardest way to make an easy living” about having a suit made by Maurice Sedwell), sporting heroes (Mark Ramprakash, Brian Lara and Robin Van Persie) and outstanding captains of industry around the globe. To date the company have tailored suits for customers in sixty countries.

Another significant achievement is his establishment of the Savile Row Academy training institute as he wishes to pass on the centuries-old handcraft bespoke tailoring techniques of Savile Row to future generations, creating employment opportunities. The Academy opened its doors to business from Maurice Sedwell’s premises in January 2008 and today provides aspiring bespoke tailors with high quality practical training delivered by its master tailors. After eighteen months, these graduates are ready to work at tailoring establishments around the world, including on Savile Row.

The FIT Natural Dye Garden was created in 2014 by a team of three FIT Textile Development and Marketing students, Caitlin Powell, Amber Harkonen, and Meghan Navoy. With the the help of Suzanne McGillicuddy, then Assistant Dean of Students, Professor Liz Spencer, The Brooklyn Grange, and Professor Jeffrey Silverman, they submitted their concept to the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative University competition. The team did not win, but raised a significant amount of money from the affiliated crowdfunding competition, which funded the establishment of the garden. Used as an educational tool by FIT's Textile Development and Marketing Department, the garden explores alternatives to synthetic dyes. It is completely student-run and -maintained, with students across numerous departments involved in its upkeep. Plants used to create a variety of dyes are planted, along with native and pollinator species to support an urban agricultural environment. As of 2022, the garden was growing 28 species, including pollinator species and 21 dye species, all grown from seed. The FIT Rooftop Natural Dye Garden has now been active for close to ten years, and is located on the ninth floor rooftop of the Feldman Center.

Pam Zuckerman became the Assistant Director of the Placement Department in the late 1980s for seven years. In 1988, she organized the departments’ first Career Fair. Many companies were invited to attend, to meet and talk with students. The Career Fair took place every year, including in 2020 when it was held virtually online due to COVID-19. Zuckerman was elected Director of the department in the late 1990s, and developed a computerized database system for handling job postings. During this time, almost all of the original team retired.

The first Footwear and Accessories Design initiative began in 1983 as a one-year program, which initially shared rooms with the Fashion Design and Textile Surface Design programs. Its first group of students graduated in 1985, and industry support for the program grew over the following decade through work with the Fashion Footwear Association of New York. In the 1990s, the program expanded to a two-year duration, and expanded again to a full bachelor's program in the 2000s. Money was raised for a handbag lab and a dedicated footwear lab after the FIT fur program was dissolved. The program further changed to adapt to the changing needs of the industry with the addition of internships as well as new classes, scholarships, and faculty. Students learn to design and produce a full range of accessories, from footwear to handbags to belts, incorporating use of sustainable materials, and visits to prominent showrooms, design studios, and production sites.

The FIT International Trade and Marketing program (ITM), part of the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, is a two-year Bachelor of Science program that focuses on the global marketplace and on-the-job experience through internships. The ITM program began in 1996 and graduated its first 100 students in 1998. In 2000, the International Trade Student Association (ITSA) was launched to provide ITM students and alumni with networking and career development opportunities, and in 2002 ITM’s Advisory Board reorganized to expand its scope of activities. In 2004 the Talking Trade @ FIT guest lecture series was launched followed a year later by the launch of ITM’s Mentoring Program. In 2011, FIT began offering an online version of the ITM program, and in 2018 it became accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.

Gia Marie Carangi was an American model, considered by many to be the first supermodel. She was featured on the cover of many magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and appeared in advertising campaigns for luxury fashion houses such as Armani, Dior, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent.

Carangi was born on January 29, 1960, in Philadelphia, the third and youngest child of Joseph Carangi, a restaurant owner, and Kathleen Carangi (née Adams), a homemaker. She had two older brothers. Her father was Italian, and her mother was of Irish and Welsh ancestry. Joseph and Kathleen had an unstable, violent marriage, ultimately leading Kathleen to abandon the family when Carangi was eleven years old.

After Carangi became addicted to heroin, her career rapidly declined. In 1986, at age 26, she died of AIDS-related complications. Believed to have contracted it from a contaminated needle, she became one of the first famous women to die of the virus. Her life was dramatized in the 1998 HBO television film Gia, directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie as Carangi.

Tina Chow (born Bettina Louise Lutz, April 18, 1950 – January 24, 1992) was an American model and jewelry designer who was considered an influential fashion icon of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the second wife of restaurateur Michael Chow, the founder and owner of the Mr. Chow restaurant chain. Chow was born Bettina Louise Lutz in Lakewood, Ohio. Her mother, Mona Furuki, was Japanese, while her father, Walter Edmund Lutz (1910–2003), was an American of German descent. Walter Lutz met Mona Furuki on Christmas Day 1945, while serving with the United States Army in occupied Japan. Chow's sister is artist, designer and actress Adelle Lutz.

In the mid-1960s, her family moved from Ohio to Japan, where Chow attended Sophia University. Both sisters were later discovered by a modeling agent and became the faces of Japanese cosmetic line Shiseido and featured prominently in their ad campaigns from the early 1970s. During her modeling career she was photographed by Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton and Arthur Elgort, among others. She was drawn by illustrator Antonio Lopez and painted by Andy Warhol. She was also the muse of designers Yves St. Laurent and Issey Miyake.

After her marriage to Michael Chow ended, Tina Chow began to drift away from the party lifestyle for which the couple had become known. She became an AIDS activist after having lost many friends to the disease. In June 1989, Chow was diagnosed with AIDS. She had contracted HIV in late 1985 after having an affair with French aristocrat Kim d'Estainville who died of AIDS in January 1990. She made her diagnosis public in an effort to educate others and continued working as an AIDS activist and with AIDS charities, including Project Angel Food.

On January 24, 1992, she died of complications from AIDS at her home in Pacific Palisades at the age of 41.

Herbert Ritts Jr. was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits. Born in Los Angeles, to a Jewish family, Ritts began his career working in the family furniture business. His father, Herb Ritts Sr., was a businessman, while his mother, Shirley Ritts, was an interior designer. He moved to the East Coast to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history, graduating in 1975.

Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend Richard Gere, then an aspiring actor, decided to shoot some photographs in front of an old Buick. The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography. He photographed Brooke Shields for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of Elle and he photographed Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album in 1981. Five years later he replicated that cover pose with Madonna for her 1986 release True Blue. That year he photographed Tina Turner for her album Break Every Rule.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California.[3] Some of his subjects during this time included musical artists. He also took fashion and nude photographs of models Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford. He worked for Interview, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Glamour, GQ, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Time, Vogue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Details, and Elle magazines.

On December 26, 2002, Ritts died in Los Angeles from pneumonia at the age of 50. According to Ritts' publicist, "Herb was HIV-positive, but this particular pneumonia was not PCP (pneumocystis pneumonia), a common opportunistic infection of AIDS. But at the end of the day, his immune system was compromised."

Franco Moschino was born in Abbiategrasso, Lombardy, Italy. As a young man, Moschino was interested in fine art and aspired to be a painter against his family's wishes. In 1968, he ran away from home to Milan where he enrolled at the Brera Academy. To finance his studies, he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator for fashion houses and magazines. The experience prompted Moschino to switch his focus to fashion and drop out from the academy to study at the Marangoni Institute. After completing his schooling in 1971, Moschino became an illustrator for Gianni Versace, and continued to work for him for another six years. From 1977 to 1982, he designed for the Italian label Cadette. Moschino founded his own company, Moonshadow, in 1983 and launched the Moschino Couture! later that same year. At first, he designed casualwear and jeans, but his line eventually expanded to lingerie, eveningwear, shoes, menswear and perfumes. In 1988, he launched a less expensive Cheap and Chic line.

In 1992, Moschino underwent surgery for an abdominal tumor. On 18 September 1994, he died at his lakeside villa in Brianza, Italy, of cardiac arrest, reportedly from complications from surgery. Only after his death was it publicly revealed that Moschino's death was AIDS-related. The year before his death, Moschino worked to raise money for hospices for children with AIDS.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and a member of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, George Stavrinos is remembered for his fashion illustrations for clients such as fashion retailers Barney’s, Bergdorf Goodman, and the men’s fashion magazine GQ.
Stavrinos entered the conscious of many gay men through his work for the 1977 publication Gay Source: A Catalog for Men. His work appeared in numerous magazines, including Blueboy and Christopher Street. His work illustrated an excerpt of Paul Monette’s first novel, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, which appeared in the August 1978 issue of Blueboy.
Mel Odom told the Advocate: "George and I were good friends and neighbors . . . we lived ten blocks apart and he went out of his way to befriend me. George was a doll. A very sweet, complicated man with a huge heart and tons of talent.”
At the time of Stavrinos’s death, at age 42 of AIDS-related illness, he was discussing working with Jim French at Colt Studio on new male erotic work.
This excerpt is taken from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art exhibition Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Walls.

Helena Rubinstein started the Helena Rubinstein Foundation in 1953. Convinced that education was vital to career development, she set up scholarship grants to encourage young women to undertake higher education and to pursue nontraditional careers. The Foundation was a major beneficiary of Helena Rubinstein's legacy when she died in 1965 at the age of 94. Its directors further developed and broadened the philanthropic concepts she initiated and, sensitive to the changing needs of society, supported new and forward-looking programs.

The Helena Rubinstein Foundation ceased operations at the end of 2011. Over its nearly 60 year history, the Foundation distributed over $130 million, primarily to education and community-based organizations in New York City. Foundation assets included an archive of more than 600 photographs, books written by and about Helena Rubenstein, article clippings, and various media, documenting the career of Helena Rubinstein. This collection is now in the care of the library at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.

"Antonio Lopez was born in 1943, in Utuado, Puerto Rico. He was the son of a couturier, and moved to New York at the age of eight. He studied at the High School of Industrial Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
In the early 60's, he worked as a sketch artist on 7th Avenue, until in 1964, he met the designer Charles James, who was to be an enormous influence on him. Antonio worked with James, drawing all the designer's clothes, for a number of years.
With the advent of fashion photography, Vogue magazine used lesser and lesser of the illustrator's art, with the exception only of Antonio, who was almost the only artist to be found in Vogue after 1963, because of the stylistic quality and great verve of his drawings.
In 1969, while on a working trip for Elle Magazine in Paris, he met fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who encouraged him to set up a studio in Paris. He did so and became the leader of a group of celebrities.
He established himself as the foremost fashion illustrator on both sides of the Atlantic. It can be said of Antonio that his work helped create a return to the almost forgotten art of fashion illustration in magazines. He exerted a strong influence on many younger artists.
He was the only artist commissioned by fashion magazines with any regularity during the lean years of the 60's and 70's. His was a style completely in tune with the rebellious clothes and free attitudes of the 60's. From the moment they were first published in Women's Wear Daily and the New York Times, Antonio's drawings were much in demand.
He was sought out by designers, stores and magazines around the world. For over 20 years, Antonio remained the most consistently influential fashion illustrator and his career bridges the gap between the 60's and the renaissance of fashion illustration in the 80's.
He died in 1987 at the age of 44."

Founder of A. Goodman Company and one of the original Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) founders.

“Christine Pomeranz is an associate professor and chair of the International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries Department. She was an international banker for 20 years at the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Group Ltd., and Citibank. Pomeranz was appointed by successive U.S. Secretaries of Commerce as a member of the New York District Export Council, and currently serves as its vice chair. In addition to teaching, she organizes field trips and career development programs for students, founded the Talking Trade @ FIT guest lecture series, and is instrumental in raising funds to enhance student professional development.”

"Shannon Maher is the dean for the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, overseeing the school’s 10 associate’s and baccalaureate programs. Maher served as a faculty member and chair of the school’s Home Products Development Department from 2013-20. She has been an active member of the college community, serving with distinction on a range of college-wide and faculty senate committees. She was co-chair of the committee that guided the school in its successful accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs in 2018.

"Prior to FIT, Maher spent 20 years in the manufacturing and retail sectors of the apparel and home industry fields. She arrived at FIT from Hanover Direct, Inc., a multi-brand e-commerce corporation based in New Jersey, where she was senior vice president for product development and sourcing. She holds memberships in the AATCC, CMG, and IFDA, and received her Greenleaders Certificate from the Sustainable Furnishings Council. With extensive experience in merchandising, product development, sourcing, and strategy, she continues to be active in the industry as a strategic product development consultant, having partnered with Ross Stores, AlixPartners, SUN Capital, and KPMG.

"Maher earned her BA, summa cum laude, in fashion marketing and merchandising from Marymount University in Arlington, Va., her MA in integrated marketing communications at Marist College, and a higher education teaching certificate from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard."