The deadline is fast approaching for the XRC Cohort 5 Program application. XRC Labs would love to support more Parsons and New School alumni involved in the XRC Program as startup founders. In the last cohort they invested in FFORA a company founded by Parsons Alumna and award-winning designer Lucy Jones. In the course of the 3-months, Lucy has developed and launched her new product. We would like to support more outstanding Alumni through the program. XRC Program Startup Benefits: Funding: 100k Net Work Space on the Parsons Campus Access to a Network of top-tier Brands and Retailers Access to a Great…

For those interested in an urban course based on a trip abroad, join School of Design Strategies Professor Miodrag Mitrasinovic to China in January of 2018. The week-long intensive will be supplemented by four meetings in the Spring semester on Fridays from 3:50 to 6:30 PM. If you have any questions about this global intensive course, please contact Miodrag Mitrasinovic at mitrasim@newschool.edu!

  Download: 2018 Fashion Scholarship Fund Case Study.docx Download: FSF Case Study Competition FAQ Board Tutorial.docx Download: FSF Mission & Impact Sheet.pdf Download: How and Why To Apply Sheet.pdf

Take a look at this amazing electives for next semester!

Parsons School of Design students within the Strategic Design and Management BFA program presents Shirt Stories, a first up-cycle fashion lab pop up in collaboration with Housing Works. By redesigning shirts that were given by Housing Works the goal of the pop up lab is to give a new (and fashionable) life to unwanted shirts and encourage up-cycling. Through hands-on fashion up-cycling workshops at the Fashion Lab we will be making a difference in our effort to minimize textile waste. There will be a Shirt Stories showcase, which will display up-cycled shirts redesigned by Parsons faculty and students. Each shirt will be presented with a story…