MOOD BOARDS
From the Editors
Fashion and other creative industries are always slightly ahead. Fall collections anticipate spring; spring collections hint at fall. Across the industries represented at the college, creatives are constantly building for audiences, markets, and desires that don’t fully exist yet.
At the same time, the past keeps resurfacing. Dior’s 1947 “New Look” borrowed heavily from the 19th century. Flip phones are suddenly back. A mood board works this way too: Fragments from different eras and sensibilities combine until something new starts to emerge.
Earlier this spring, the Hue editors asked the FIT community to send us images, sketches, objects, colors, references, obsessions that spoke to their personal creative direction. What arrived was surprising, funny, personal, and occasionally mysterious. Artist Abigail DeVille, Fine Arts BFA ’09, contributed an homage to a servant’s bell owned by Sally Hemings, the mother of at least one of Thomas Jefferson’s children. Rowthania Moulton, International Trade and Marketing BS ’26, sent nine selfies that together become an exuberant self-portrait.
We spoke with three trend forecasters about how they think about the future, and asked interior designers to share mood boards alongside finished spaces. Again and again, the same idea emerged: Before something can exist, someone has to imagine it.
This magazine belongs to the community that made it. What’s on your mind is what’s on ours.
About the cover image: A color exploration by Lindsay Boehl, Fabric Styling BFA ’08, founder of Elderberry Creative, became the starting point for this issue’s cover.