Features
6 Gold Standard FMM’s Alfred Sloan on a half century of teaching 8 Dress We Can! FIT folks outfit Michelle Obama and Jill Biden
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10 Making Waves Computer Animation alumni build Björk a river 14 Second Chances Business and design opportunities in a brave new world 16
Randy ❤ s Brides Here come the gowns
21 Author, Author Arianna Huffington and Loung Ung visit FIT 22 Now It’s Personal Direct marketing comes of age
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Departments
4 The Ask Got an avatar? Tell us about it 4 Hue’s News Recent developments at and related to FIT 9 I Contact A TDM student talks Turkey 13 27/7 What’s a luxury you’ll never stop buying? 20
Faculty on… Old poems for young lives
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Footprint FIT’s green plan gets noticed
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24 Alumni Notes Find out what your classmates are up to 27 Sparks Svetlana Ponorovsky ’93 on toys as food for thought
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Front and back covers: The avatars of Rachel Sullivan ’10 and Shenlei Winkler ’06 frolic in the virtual world Second Life.
Hue is the alumni magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology, a State University of New York college of art and design, business and technology. It is published three times a year by the Division of Advancement and External Relations, Seventh Alumni Magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology
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volume 2 | number 2 | spring 2009
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