When walking through the fashion studios on the fourth and fifth floors of University Center, one will find students — mostly dressed in all black — hunched over…
Allie Griffin
Allie is the News Editor for the Free Press. She is a super senior finishing her fifth year as a Journalism & Design student at Lang and a Fashion Design student at Parsons. She also covers local news for the Staten Island Advance and writes about issues within the fashion industry for a not-for-profit online publication. A native New Yorker, Allie now calls Brooklyn home, where she resides with an orange cat and a pint of coffee ice cream hidden in her freezer at all times.
A Parsons Student Designed Her Senior Thesis To Help Syrian Refugees
“Another 200 people died in Syria today” blasted from the 11 o’clock news as Angela Luna and her father sat watching television in their Massachusetts home. Luna, 22,…
ULEC on the 2016 Presidential Election Offered Next Semester
With CNN headlines like “Donald Trump Defends Size of his Penis,” Bernie Sanders’s Snow White moment with a little song bird at his Oregon rally, and Hillary Clinton’s…
Culture and Race at Parsons
Kaitlin Kimbro, a junior in fashion design at Parsons, was listening to a peer present a trend report on “natural hair” in her Fashion Industry course in Spring…
The Name Game
On the first day of classes, Parsons professors often ask their new students if they have a preferred name, as they go down the attendance list. As American…
Parsons Breaks FIT’s Streak and Wins Annual Fusion Fashion Show
Parsons won the title of “Best Overall School” Sunday night at Fusion Fashion Show 2016 at the New School’s University Center, breaking rival FIT’s three year winning streak.…