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Cross Pollination: Fashion and Technology . Thursday, April 25, 9 am - noon Register Now This event is FREE but registration is required. Scholars and fashion insiders explore the links between fashion and technology from multiple perspectives in this half-day symposium. Speakers will cover such topics as the future of bio-based materials in fashion, the development of fashionable wearables, and the innovative potential of collaborations between creative artists and technical specialists. Bradley Quinn, a well-known consultant and publisher in the fashion industry and author of Techno Fashion, The Fashion of Architecture, UltraMaterials, Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, Design Futures, Fashion Futures and the forthcoming Textile Visionaries, is the keynote speaker. Other speakers include Steve Zades, creator of the Odyssey Project on Imaginative Intelligence; Suzanne Lee, fashion designer and director of The BioCouture Research Project; and Sabine Seymour, Chief Creative Officer of Moondial. Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, first floor New York City The Fashion and Technology symposium is a collaboration between The Museum at FIT and the School of Graduate Studies at FIT supported in part by the FIT Student-Faculty Corp. MUSEUM INFORMATION The Museum at FIT is dedicated to advancing knowledge of fashion through exhibitions, programs and publications. The Museum is open to the public free of charge, Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 8pm, and Saturday 10 am - 5pm. Located on the Southwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 27th Street in New York City, the museum can be reached by subway: 1, C, E, F, M, N, or R, and by bus: M20 and M23. Penn Station is close by at 31st Street for the Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit, and Amtrak. For more information, be sure to visit our website at www.fitnyc.edu/museum or phone our information line at 212-217-4558 For Press Information about any of our exhibitions or programs, please call the Office of Communications and External Relations, 212-217-4700 connect with us   This e-mail was sent from The Museum at FIT Immediate removal with ® Secure.