Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a public college within the State University of New York system, located in Manhattan, that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in fashion, design, and the creative industries. It provides degrees, continuing education, and precollege programs focused on preparing students for careers in creative fields.www.fitnyc.edu
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Nov 3, 2026
KC IfeanyiHOST
I was interested in unpacking the state of creativity during this influx of AI.
KC IfeanyiHOST
We've seen unprecedented investment in big tech, but what's happening to the artists, designers, filmmakers, and other creative thinkers whose ideas helped shape the culture around us? For this conversation, I brought together Holly Fraser, editor-in-chief of WePresent, Jason Schupbach, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Everette Taylor, the CEO of Kickstarter.
KC IfeanyiHOST
We discussed why creative talent remains one of our most valuable yet under-invested assets, how institutions and businesses can better support independent creators, and why human creativity isn't a cultural imperative but an innovation strategy.
KC IfeanyiHOST
We discussed why creative talent remains one of our most valuable yet under-invested assets, how institutions and businesses can better support independent creators, and why human creativity isn't just a cultural imperative, but an innovation strategy.
Jason StanleyMODERATOR
So, you know.
Jason StanleyMODERATOR
But you did go to the Fashion Institute of Technology for three semesters, so it's not like you were completely...
Jason StanleyMODERATOR
And when, instead of
Molly CrabappleGUEST
writing papers, they let you paint your feelings about Greek philosophy.
Steve CudenHOST
We're coming to you from the Steel City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Steve CudenHOST
My guest today, the poet Jane Berger-Hirschlag, is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Steve CudenHOST
She's been an apparel designer, textile designer, and model home decorator.
Steve CudenHOST
Jane also received a BA in Creative Writing and Women's Studies from Hunter College and an MA in Creative Writing from City College of New York.
Marta KaganHOST
But again, if you're sensitive, I just want you to be aware and take care of yourself.
Marta KaganHOST
And what I want to bring up is that in the last like 30 days or so alone, we've had in major national news, the Cornell incident, the Cornell seven and that those rape allegations, there was an incident at the University of Chicago, there was an incident, I think it was last week at Fashion Institute or FIT in New York, all of these were, I'm not going to get into the details, you can look them up, or you already know about them.
Marta KaganHOST
But my point is that We're paying interest on a debt that we never ran up.
Marta KaganHOST
Right.
Joel KotkinHOST
Well, I started getting students in my classes who were from Hong Kong who were being sent to the United States to do design and marketing.
Joel KotkinHOST
If you go to the Fashion Institute here in Southern California or in New York, they're filled with students from these countries that are doing production, and now they want to do the design.
Joel KotkinHOST
And you're seeing it happening even at the retail level.
Joel KotkinHOST
So we had this idea that somehow we didn't have to do the hard stuff.
Diane GilmanGUEST
And nobody would hire me.
Diane GilmanGUEST
I had no education at Fashion Institute.
Diane GilmanGUEST
I had no ties to the industry, no family in the industry.
Diane GilmanGUEST
So the only thing I could do was I got a night job at Maxis Kansas City.
Brijitte WestGUEST
not just a weird person.
Brijitte WestGUEST
And then I also got a scholarship to go to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Brijitte WestGUEST
And I got to do that at my last year of high school at 18.
Brijitte WestGUEST
So I started my journey into New York and that seemed very early.
Valda CrowderHOST
And that is a sexual assault case in the University of Chicago that involved two female friends who intervened while their friend was being sexually assaulted at a fraternity house.
Valda CrowderHOST
And there is also students at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Valda CrowderHOST
Two students there were sexually assaulted and drugged with fentanyl and one ended up dead.
Valda CrowderHOST
So this is really, really an important topic.
Matthew Russell LeeHOST
One of the two had a big family turnout in Judge Roderick's courtroom, and we wrote about that one as well.
Matthew Russell LeeHOST
Today we'll be covering, I'm going to call it, Fashion Institute Technology, the guy who brought fentanyl to an older, somewhat older, he may have been 17, 18, she was 22, he brought the fentanyl, she was unconscious, he took pictures of her naked as she died.
Matthew Russell LeeHOST
Bad dude.
Matthew Russell LeeHOST
The question is, if that's true, the question is, why did the prosecutor's office conceal the name of the school? Why? School 1.
Alana CummingsGUEST
So, I started my professional career in New York City.
Alana CummingsGUEST
So, I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Alana CummingsGUEST
And I worked for the shoe designer Steve Madden.
Alana CummingsGUEST
I'm not sure if you guys have seen Wolf of Wall Street.
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