We are excited to launch and invite you to participate in the first edition of Fashion Education Week (FEW) in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery (2 West 13th Street) from October 13th to 18th, 2023.
FEW is an open platform that considers Fashion Education a catalyst for change. It approaches Fashion as an array of practices that affect multiple dimensions of human experience and aims to highlight local communities and the people that make up the creative fabric of New York City. As such, FEW’s program is open to everyone.
In this year’s edition, the physical space of the Kellen Gallery will be used as a live device to explore fashion as an expansive and evolving idea. The space will also provide an opportunity to relocate fashion education outside the classroom and other specialized environments where critical conversations about fashion often remain separated from other actors, communities, and the general public.
FEW 2023, a joint initiative by Parsons' Gromek Institute for Fashion Business and the MFA Fashion Design and Society program, will facilitate a space for conversations led by fashion educators, students, industry professionals, fashion and design brands, and the general public to explore the intersections between fashion design, creative industries, and social justice. The convening will include guest lectures, open classes, workshops, readings, active-making, and special sessions.
PROGRAM
Friday, October 13
10:00 am - 3:00 pm | Open Gallery
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons)
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Naika Colas (Parsons) | Open classroom: Sustainable Systems
Saturday, October 14
10:00 am - 12:30 pm | Lucia Cuba (Parsons) | Open Workshop: wearables for/to protest (family friendly)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Geoffry Gertz (Parsons) | Open presentation| Clo 3D in Fashion Education
2:00 - 7:00 pm | Open Gallery - view only
Monday, October 16
10:00 am - 7:00 pm | Open Gallery
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lynn Simon & Laura Lanteri (Parsons) |The Awkward Pause: A documentary on racism in fashion marketing.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Omar Seivwright (Parsons), Designer | Open Workshop - Fashion Sketching 101
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Stone Hubbard (Parsons), Faculty | Open Workshop - Bag Design Sketching
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Jeff K. Drouillard (Parsons) Faculty & Creative Director | Building a Brand 101
5:00 pm - 6:00pm | Reni Folawiyo, (Alara) Founder & CEO (Lagos, Nigeria) | Open Conversation
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Megan Boone, Actress, Sustainability Activist | Open Conversation
6:30 pm - 7:30pm | Rosario Dawson, Actress, Activist, Co-Founder (Studio189, VotoLatino) | Open Conversation
Tuesday, October 17
10:00 am - 7:00 pm | Open Gallery
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Emily Huggard (Parsons) | Open Workshop | “Disrupting Thin Narratives: Creating Student Desire for Fat Fashion”
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Lucia Cuba (Parsons) | Open conversation | Sistemas de la Moda
Latino America (esta session será en spanglish)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Otto von Busch & Steven Faerm (Parsons) | Open workshop
2:00 pm -3:00pm | Carolina Obregon | About Manifiesto 4 & other Fashion Systems in Colombia
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Luciana Scrutchen (Parsons) | Open Workshop
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Jeff K. Drouillard, (Parsons), Faculty & Creative Director | Open conversation - On Fashion & Creative Direction
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Charles Klein, Attorney “Legal Aspects of the Creative Industry” | Open Conversation
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Sara Kozlowski (Council of Fashion Designers of America)| Vice President of Program Strategies, Education & Sustainability Initiatives | Open Conversation
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Kaley Roshitsh, (WWD), Editorial director at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (formerly sustainability editor at WWD) | Open Conversation - virtual @ the gallery
5:30 pm - 6:00pm | Batsheva, (Batsheva) Founder / Creative Director | Open Conversation
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Rajni Jacques (Snapchat) | Global Head of Fashion & Beauty | Open Conversation
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Reception - music by Uproot Andy
Wednesday, October 18
10:00 am - 7:00 pm | Open Gallery
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Liliana Sanguino
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Dana Davis (Mara Hoffman) VP of Sustainability, Product and Business Strategy | Open Conversation
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons) | Interfaith + Fashion | Open Conversation & Workshop
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Sugandha Gupta (Parsons) in Conversation with Krishna Washburn (Darkroom Ballet-dance educator and artist) & Cynthia Bennett (Scientist, Scholar and Researcher - Google) | Access as a tool for fashion art & technology | Open conversation
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Yvonne Watson (Parsons), Interim Executive Dean at Parsons School of Design | Open Conversation
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Closing Remarks Abrima Erwiah (Parsons), Faculty & Director of Gromek Institute for Fashion Business & Lucia Cuba, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice, Donna Karan Director, MFA Fashion Design & Society
* Dates & Times are subject to change. Check the schedule for updates
*Speakers & Facilitators (More speakers and facilitators to be announced).
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