Which New York fashion school did Michael Kors attend?

Michael Kors attended New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology.

Kors enrolled at FIT in 1977 after moving into New York’s fashion world. The public record often describes him as an FIT alumnus, but he did not complete the program: he left after about nine months and soon began working at the Manhattan boutique Lothar’s, across from Bergdorf Goodman.

That early retail experience became an important part of his training. At Lothar’s, he began as a salesperson and progressed to designing merchandise and handling visual displays. The job gave him practical exposure to customers, buying and presentation—skills that complemented his formal fashion education.

Kors later launched his own women’s label in 1981. The question asks which school he attended, not which school he graduated from, so Fashion Institute of Technology is the precise answer. Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and Los Angeles’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising are different institutions and are not the correct choices here.