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Highlights for the week of Nov. 14–20, 2022

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Yuniya Kawamura; cover of Fat Fashion book; Paolo Volonte
FEATURED STORY
Who’s Afraid of Fatness in Fashion?
Would you consider fashion to be size-inclusive in 2022? If you answered yes, Paolo Volonté, author of Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies, would disagree with you. On November 3, Volonté virtually joined Dr. Yuniya Kawamura of FIT’s Sociology department for the Globally Connected @ FIT series to discuss his book. As an associate professor of cultural sociology at Politecnico di Milano, Volonté’s work focuses on the exclusion of “fat bodies” from fashion—and he insists we use the word. “People tend to avoid using this term because it’s considered offensive,” Volonté says. “Every time we use a euphemism not to say ‘fat,’ we confirm the idea that fat is bad.” Read more
UPCOMING EVENTS
NOV 17, 5 PM  FIT Authors Talks: Alexandra Schwartz on Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art
NOV 18, 6:30 PM  Book Launch Event: Westernwear, with Sonya Abrego

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RECENT STORIES
  Checking In with Rashelle Huntley, Recipient of the McConney Award for Student Excellence
•  Alexander Nagel Speaks on Omani Fashion

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Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer
Interior design firm Roman and Williams and its founders, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, were profiled in The New York Times. The firm won FIT's Lawrence Israel Prize in 2013, and the prize's committee chair, Interior Design Professor Johannes Knoops, was quoted in the article. “Their rooms are like portals into another place and time,” said Knoops.

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Social Media of the Week
John Dessereau, MFA '19, placed a fanciful illustration of the New York City Marathon in the November 6 issue of The New Yorker. "The assignment was essentially to create a piece about the marathon," Dessereau explained. "There is no article attached to the piece, the piece is the article. My inspiration was how the marathon takes over the city and what training in the city feels like."
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Exhibitions Opening This Week
Creative Industry: The Alumni Journey

Opens Nov. 16
Art and Design Gallery

Unseen Memory: Part II

Opens Nov. 19
Gallery FIT, The Museum at FIT

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Fashion Culture Event
Misa Hylton in Conversation with Elena Romero

Thursday, Nov. 17, 5:30 pm

Misa Hylton
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