Trivette, Karen Jamison

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Grace Mirabella talks about her career when she just started out, her time at Vogue magazine, and life after Vogue.

Scope and Contents In this interview, Karen Trivette interviews fashion curator Harold Koda about his life leading up to his work in New York with fashion collections. Mr. Koda discusses the classes he took at FIT to meet Diana Vreeland, how he submitted some of his designs to Geraldine Stutz at Bendel's, and finally wound up working as an assistant for Diana Vreeland for The Glory of Russian Costume at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. He goes on to discuss his work as a curator at the...

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Professor Irene Buchman is interviewed by Karen Trivette on October 30th, 2019. Buchman opens up about how she did not have a vision growing up and how that vision eventually came to fruition through her educational experiences and people she had met along the way. Eventually, she started in the Remedial Department at FIT and established the Department of Educational Skills. She continues to discuss the students of FIT, her experience as Dean of Liberal Arts, and her future plans.

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President of FIT, Dr. Joyce F. Brown is interviewed by Karen Trivette on July 17th, 2019. They discuss Dr. Brown’s upbringing and how her past senior-level positions at the City University of New York prepared her for her role as President of FIT. She continues to discuss the difference between running a college community from running a corporation, and how she has placed four strategic planning initiatives in order to provide for the whole of the school.

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Karen Trivette interviews Judy Mindell, who attended FIT in 1945 as a student.

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Karen Trivette interviews model Karen Bjornson for the Ford Model oral histories series. The interview explores Bjornson’s start in modeling, her interaction with Wilhelmina right out of high school, and even shares her personal romantic life. Bjornson discusses her most memorable modeling experiences and what it was like to work with designers such as Halston and Ralph Rucci.