Fashion merchandising
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Sloan interview, 1994 November 1, 1994 November 1
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.6
Scope and Contents
In this interview with Dr. Alfred Sloan, Jr. he discusses his 1958 arrival at FIT following two years of teaching at Orange County Community College, another SUNY school. He was a veteran of World War II and had spent over ten years working in the fashion industry. Sloan discusses FIT’s first home at the Central High School of Needle Trades and their eventual move to the C building. Sloan lists various founders of the school and their roots on 7th avenue in the garment industry. He describes...
Dates:
1994 November 1
Boutiques, 1957-1986, 1957-1986
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.7.1.51
Scope and Contents
Pasted and laminated articles concerning fashion boutiques, including articles from Stores and The Village Voice.
Dates:
1957-1986
Elaine Stone interview, 1995 March 1, 1995 March 1
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.28
Scope and Contents
Elaine Stone, a professor in the Fashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM) at the time of this interview, also served as the coordinator of the Small Business Center and the director of the Center for Global Enterprise. She talks about her first encounters with FIT students while working at various department stores during the holiday season and her invitation to speak at the school. She was immediately taken with FIT and began teaching in 1975 after meeting Newt Godnick of the FBM...
Dates:
1995 March 1
Helen Xenakis interview, 1995 February 22, 1995 February 22
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.31
Scope and Contents
Helen Xenakis, the Internship Coordinator at FIT at the time of this interview, began as an adjunct professor in theFashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM) in 1988, following a 25-year career in buying. She talks about the inception of the internship program at FIT and its growth ten-fold. She sees the program as mutually beneficial for employers and students, which explains its exponential success. At the time of the interview, FIT had over 900 company sponsors including Donna...
Dates:
1995 February 22
Jeanette Jarnow interview, 1994 December 20, 1994 December 20
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.15
Scope and Contents
Jeannette Jarnow, former Chair of the Fashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM), discusses the small and intimate nature of FIT when she joined in 1956. She discusses the founding of the school by Morris Haft, Virginia Pope, and a handful of fashion industry insiders. She then describes the birth of the FBM department thanks to an endowment by Bergdorf Goodman as well as close relationships with Lord & Taylor, Abraham and Strauss, and Bloomingdale's. Jarnow touches on influential...
Dates:
1994 December 20
Jeannette Jarnow interview, 1984 November 1, 1984 November 1
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.12.2
Scope and Contents
This interview is with Jeannette Jarnow, the first chairperson of the Buying and Merchandising Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Jarnow describes her professional ascent at the department store, Abraham & Straus, up to 1944; when she took a brief break due to her first pregnancy. Jarnow describes the path that led her to seek out a teaching post at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Instead of offering Jarnow a professorial post,...
Dates:
1984 November 1
Julian Tomchin interview, 1986 November, 1986 November
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.3.9
Scope and Contents
This conversation has three main components: first, Tomchin discusses his work in the home furnishings department, consolidating the department into one cohesive collection under the guidance of a fashion director, similar to the structure of the clothing departments. This allowed the department to present more fully developed design ideas to the customer, encouraging the customer to work as her own decorator, just as the fashion departments allowed her to be her own stylist. Next, Tomchin...
Dates:
1986 November
Licensing - Designer Merchandise I, 1974-1982, 1974-1982
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.7.1.95
Scope and Contents
Photocopied, pasted, and laminated articles concerning fashion designer licensing of merchandise, including articles from California Apparel News and Men's Apparel News.
Dates:
1974-1982
Licensing - Designer Merchandise II, 1982-1991, 1982-1991
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.7.1.96
Scope and Contents
Photocopied, pasted, and laminated articles concerning fashion designer licensing of merchandise, including articles from HFD.
Dates:
1982-1991
Peg Smith Interview, 1995 March 14, 1995 March 14
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.27
Scope and Contents
Coordinator for the Cosmetic and Fragrance Marketing Program at the time of this interview, Peg Smith joined FIT as a part-time professor in the Fashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM) in 1977. She came with a background in buying and merchandising for large companies such as Bloomingdale’s. Smith came on full-time in 1981 and, in 1988, was offered chairmanship of the burgeoning 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in Cosmetic and Fragrance Marketing. She discusses the history of the...
Dates:
1995 March 14