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Parsons 2013 Fashion Benefit to Honor Bonnie Brooks and Proenza Schouler

Parsons The New School for Design has announced that it will honor Bonnie Brooks, President of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Parsons alumni Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler at the 2013 Parsons Fashion Benefit, taking place May 22 at Chelsea Piers.

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THE NEW SCHOOL: ART AND DESIGN PUBLIC PROGRAMS WINTER/SPRING 2013

The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has announced its art and design public programming for this winter and spring.

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Reconstruction 3.0: Life is a Journey

As an exciting conclusion to New York Fashion Week, students from Parsons, New School Jazz and the Joffrey Ballet School will debut an evening of live performances featuring original music, dance and fashion inspired by Louis Vuitton and its heritage of travel.

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Parsons and the London College of Fashion Present Local Wisdom

Parsons The New School for Design and the Center for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion have partnered to present LOCAL WISDOM, a project intended to change the way the public thinks about, buys and wears fashion.

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THE PUBLIC PRIVATE

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design presents The Public Private, the first New York exhibition of contemporary art that explores the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm.

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Parsons Presents Sophie Gimbel: Fashioning American Couture

On January 22, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design will present Sophie Gimbel: Fashioning American Couture, an exhibition that explores the career of this seminal, yet little known today, 20th century designer.

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Parsons and Columbia Business School Develop New Concepts for Luxury Brands

The Luxury Education Foundation hosted the final presentations of “The Design and Marketing of Luxury Goods,” its interdisciplinary program with Columbia Business School and Parsons The New School for Design, where students collaboratively develop concepts for some of the world’s leading companies.

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Empowerhouse: Solar Decathlon Team, Habitat for Humanity and D.C. Goverment Celebrate Completion of Innovative Model for Affordable, Green Housing

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 4, 2012—After several years of planning, design and construction, a team of students from The New School and Stevens Institute of Technology who participated in the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon celebrated the completion of Empowerhouse, an innovative model for affordable, energy efficient green housing located in the Deanwood neighborhood [...]

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Urban Uprising

NEW YORK, November 19, 2012– As demonstrated by Hurricane Sandy and the current “Great Recession,” preparing cities to confront the key challenges of the 21st century — environmental, economic, social and political — is more vital than ever before. 

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Fab + Parsons: BFA Illustration Students’ Works Debut on Fab.com

With the help of faculty members Steven Guarnaccia and Noël Claro, Parsons has teamed with Fab.com, a design marketplace founded by Parsons alum Bradford Shellhammer, to present a body of work collected from students in the school’s BFA Illustration Program.

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