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Pratt Institute presented its 118th annual runway show to a full house that included fashion industry professionals and members of the Pratt community who gathered to see curated looks by graduating senior fashion students on May 4, 2017 at…
City and Regional Planning
Five undergraduate and graduate Pratt Institute students have been selected to participate in the Community Mobility Challenge as part of the 2017 Innovate NYC program, which provides students with the opportunity to learn valuable entrepreneurial skills and tackle real-life…
Fashion design student Mila Sullivan (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’17) combined her passion for nostalgia, vintage fabrics, and classic Hollywood films to create a final thesis collection that reinterprets glamour through modern silhouettes and deconstruction. For Sullivan, there is glamour…
Graduate Industrial Design
REheat, a product designed and created by Pratt Institute alumna Dayna Mailach (M.I.D. ’16) as part of her master’s thesis, was selected as a finalist in the student category of the 2017 World Changing Ideas Awards. The annual competition, which…
Graduate Interior Design
Graduate students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a distinctive tabletop installation for the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) Dining By Design event, which was held March 16–20 at Pier 92 in Manhattan. This year marked the…
Pratt Institute will honor design team Laura Kim (B.F.A. ’04) and Fernando Garcia, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and Monse, with the Pratt Fashion Visionary Award at Pratt Shows: Fashion | The Work on May 4, 2017. The 118th runway show will spotlight inventive…
The Whitney Biennial 2017 will include the work of two Pratt-affiliated artists: Assistant Professor of Fashion Design Susan Cianciolo and alumna Carrie Moyer (B.F.A. Painting ’85). The Biennial will open on March 17, 2017. The Whitney Biennial is a prestigious…
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, adjunct associate professor of industrial design and fashion design, has designed a number of high-tech costumes for the Brooklyn Ballet’s production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker, which was performed for sold-out audiences at the Brooklyn Museum from December 7-9…
School of Design
Selected Pratt students from a range of disciplines are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to work collaboratively to solve challenging problems through the Institute’s recent partnership with Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Lehigh’s Mountaintop Program is an innovative 8-…
A foldable bike helmet designed by Isis Shiffer (M.I.D. ’16) during her time at Pratt was named the International Winner of the James Dyson Award 2016, which is given by the James Dyson Foundation to recognize exceptional inventions by university…
