Fashion Institute of Technology Lauds David Yurman With Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts

NEW YORK — Fashion’s freshest faces are ready for the real world. But first, they’ll need some advice from a few seasoned pros, like jewelry designer David Yurman, fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger and clothing designer Stephen Burrows. The trio were on hand Wednesday at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall to celebrate the Fashion Institute of Technology’s 2019 School of Art & Design commencement ceremony. Yurman, along with FIT president Joyce Brown, valedictorian William Munn, student government association president Natalie Ho and a few professors, addressed about 900 undergraduate students, many of whom were in high spirits donning graduation caps decorated with tiaras and Supreme stickers. “Who else has dresses made of seaweed?” Ho, who also served as FIT’s student trustee, teased the crowd full of family and friends. “I didn’t hear anyone from Parsons [School of Design] doing that.” Good-natured ribbing aside, Yurman, along with Hilfiger, who spoke during the afternoon session and received the President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement, were there to talk about the challenges they had faced on the road to success. “There were a lot of obstacles,” Yurman told WWD of his nearly 50-year career, which began as in sculpting. In fact, Yurman, who, along with FIT

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