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Fashion

Pratt Institute’s 2016 Fashion Show Captivates Crowd and Attracts National Media Coverage

Pratt Institute presented its 117th runway show to nearly 400 guests from the fashion industry, who gathered to see curated looks by graduating senior fashion students on May 5 at Spring Studios in Manhattan. The show received coverage and acclaim…

Graduate Industrial Design

How to Be a Great (Sustainable) Designer

With the arrival of spring and the celebration of Earth Day 2016 on April 22, Frank Millero, visiting assistant professor of industrial design, shares thoughts on how to be a great sustainable designer. He teaches the course Sustainability and…

Fashion

Pratt Participates in NYCxDESIGN from May 3–17

Pratt is participating in NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official citywide celebration of design, through a variety of exhibitions and presentations of student, faculty, and alumni work. Highlights are listed below. Pratt Design
 2016 May 12–16 Pratt Design 2016: This exhibition,…

Fashion

Video: Fashion Senior Addresses the Concept of Fast Fashion in Final Thesis Collection

Fashion design student Margaret Burton (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’16) created a senior thesis collection that offers a thought-provoking response to “fast fashion,” the fashion industry phenomenon that involves expediting the production of clothes in order to move catwalk trends…

Fashion

Simon Doonan of Barneys New York to Present Honoree Award at 2016 Pratt Institute Fashion Show

Barneys New York creative ambassador-at-large Simon Doonan will present the Pratt Fashion Award for Lifetime Achievement to Harold Koda, former curator in charge at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Pratt Institute Fashion Show + Cocktail Benefit on May 5.

Graduate Interior Design

Interior Design Students Create Installation for DIFFA’s Dining by Design New York Event

Students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department created a unique tabletop installation for Dining by Design 2016, an event held by the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) from March 17-21. The annual event, which runs concurrently with the Architectural…

Fashion

Video: Fashion Alumna Kasia Wisniewski Builds Her Business at the BF+DA

After working for several years in luxury womenswear, Kasia Wisniewski (B.F.A. Fashion Design ’10) started the company Collected Edition to design jewelry, accessories, and home products at the intersection of modern manufacturing and handcraft. Wisniewski is developing her business…

Architecture

Pratt Shows 2016 to Celebrate Best Work of Graduating Students

Pratt Institute will display graduating students’ best work in a series of year-end events and exhibitions this spring. Pratt Shows 2016 will allow the general public an exciting opportunity to view the outstanding work of Pratt’s talented students. Pratt Shows…

Fashion

Pratt Fashion Show + Cocktail Benefit to Be Held May 5

On May 5, the 2016 Pratt Institute Fashion Show + Cocktail Benefit will spotlight inventive student designs from graduating seniors in its 117th runway show. At this year’s event, Pratt Institute will honor Harold Koda, former curator in charge of…

Graduate Communications Design

What’s in a Logo? The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Controversial Logo Redesign

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) recently redesigned its logo to much criticism in the press. Pratt Institute’s Communications Design faculty member Graham Hanson, president and chief creative director at GHD, discusses the rationale behind these types of rebranding efforts…