From Women’s Wear Daily: “ Fast Retailing’s Innovation Center in New York just got a creative boost.

Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer and founder of Theory and group senior vice president of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., has spearheaded a collaboration with the School of Visual Arts in New York and Red Hook Labs in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to showcase an exclusive series of four photography installations throughout the year representing each of the earth elements: Water, Air, Fire and Earth.

Exhibited in the lobby of Fast Retailing’s Innovation Center at 2 Gansevoort Street in New York over the course of the coming year, the images were created by students of the MPS Fashion Photography program of SVA—the only graduate program for fashion photographers in the U.S.—assisted by students of the Labs Youth Center Program under the guidance of Red Hook Labs founder Jimmy Moffat.

Theory, Helmut Lang and Uniqlo share the Innovation Center, which houses the companies’ design and production.

Along with the exhibitions, Fast Retailing has endowed a scholarship for one student from the SVA MPS Fashion Photography Class of 2018 and will make a donation to support Red Hook Labs’ community programs… (For the full story and a photo slideshow, click here)

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