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FIT Celebrates 60 Designing YearsWith its hoop handle and flower-strewn fabric, the handbag is cute and appealing.
And it is free - except for the Saturday mornings that the 14-year-old pre-college student spent creating it.
Although New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) itself celebrates 60 this year, getting them young is the policy of the vast training school, founded in 1944 and part of the New York State university system since 1957.
The junior weekend sessions on the blocklong campus in newly fashionable Chelsea are just one facet of a school that has Calvin Klein as its most illustrious alumni and a mission to offer a broad swathe of design, industrial and technical fashion education.
And whereas so many fashion colleges are privately run, including Parson's School of Design here, FIT reaches out to students whose budget may not be as large as their ambitions.
Joyce Brown, the school's president for the past six years, is proud to be extending that reach still further, by purchasing a 15-story building as a new residence hall, which will open in 2006, doubling the number of the existing 1,250 live-in students.
"I have been heartened by all that has been accomplished: a strengthened full-time faculty, vibrant program growth, new campus buildings, new technology," Brown said to the alumni.
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