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"   The cover of the CFDA&amp;#039;s book, Impact.  &amp;quot;I turned fifty last year myself so I thought I was finally over that celebration, but I&amp;#039;m doing it again this year,&amp;quot; Steven Kolb, the CFDA&amp;#039;s CEO explained at this morning&amp;#039;s press conference for the exhibit in celebration of the organization&amp;#039;s benchmark birthday. IMPACT, the bright pink tome at left, shares its name with the exhibition at The Fashion Institute of Technology&amp;#039;s beloved museum. It opens tomorrow, curated by the university&amp;#039;s Patricia Mears, whom Diane von Furstenburg calls, &amp;quot;the least corruptable person on earth.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We wanted to honor the rich history of our members and organization, and we thought FIT made perfect sense because it&amp;#039;s an institution that&amp;#039;s training the next generation of designers. That crossroads of history and the future really resonated with us,&amp;quot; Kolb explained. The school&amp;#039;s president, Dr. Joyce Brown, and it&amp;#039;s famed historian Valerie Steele, were joined by fashion luminaries like Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan, and Tory Burch\u2014each of whom glowed with early-fashion week positivity\u2014to enthusiastically toast the CFDA&amp;#039;s first exhibit. Inside the museum you&amp;#039;ll find catalogued iPads containing records from each of the association&amp;#039;s vastly-talented members, and if technology isn&amp;#039;t you&amp;#039;re fort\u00E9, maybe the feathered Thom Browne suit and or bombshell gown from Zac Posen will make a visit worthwhile. Summing it up, Kolb explained, &amp;quot;When you look back on 50 at say 75 or 100, it&amp;#039;s going to be a big mark in our history. It&amp;#039;s an age filled with reflection, but a time when you also chart a course for the future.&amp;quot; IMPACT opens at the Museum at FIT tomorrow. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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