STYLE FILE
Drew Cwiek, International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries ’25, created this glimpse into FIT student style
The looks below were styled and photographed by student Drew Cwiek. He cast all the models—“It’s very friendship-based,” he says of his selection process—dressed them using a mix of their clothes and pieces he thrifted or sewed, and photographed them with his iPhone 12 Pro Max and a Canon EOS M50.
Taken together, the photos are a peek at the state of fashion at FIT: ’90s-throwback, preppy, eclectic, and layered.
Cwiek also designs the relaxed fit, vintage-inspired, gender-fluid clothing label byDrewCwiek and produces it overseas. Cwiek says the designs are a portal into his state of mind, which recently has been a nostalgic imagining of summer camp.
Together with a friend who goes to Borough of Manhattan Community College and two more in Russia and Germany, Cwiek cofounded a production and design company called WFTV (no, it’s not a TV station—it stands for Work for the Void). WFTV is a collaborative of friends who provide an array of services—including apparel development, website building, e-commerce management, and more—for emerging fashion brands. The company also showcases their styling and design work in a self-published journal, sold in bookstores and magazine shops in New York, South Carolina, Western Europe, and Japan.
In the spirit of community, WFTV teaches the services they offer their clients. Cwiek says, “The company ethos is helping other people out and saying, ‘Oh yeah, you can do this, too.’” —Jonathan Vatner