Pratt Institute has revealed the honorees for its annual Legends gala taking place on Oct. 10.
Filmmaker Charles Burnett, architect Toshiko Mori and packaging designer Marc Rosen — who is also a Class of 1970 alum — are to be honored at the event, which will take place at Lavan Midtown in New York. The gala, which raises funds for the school’s scholarship of the same name, will kick off at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour, followed by a 7 p.m. dinner and awards ceremony.
Roughly 80 percent of Pratt students rely on financial aid, and Legends aims “to ensure the next generation of creative leaders can thrive and make a significant impact on the world,” said Pratt president Frances Bronet in a statement.
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Rosen began his career in packaging design working alongside Revlon founder Charles Revson, and went on to design some of the most iconic fragrance flacons in recent decades including Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door and Karl Lagerfeld’s KL by Karl Lagerfeld. Most recently, he teamed up with Taiwanese socialite Shining Sung to design a jade-embellished flanker for her debut fragrance, Formosa, inspired by the topography of Taiwan. Launched in 2023, the fragrance sells at Bergdorf Goodman for $295. Rosen also helms three full-tuition scholarships for Pratt packaging design students.
Burnett, who received an honorary Oscar Award in 2017, made his directorial debut in 1977 with his first feature-length film, “Killers of the Sheep,” which shines a light on the oppression of Black communities in America through the story of a man named Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders). His body of work also includes “Selma, Lord, Selma” (1999), which tells the story of the Selma civil rights march, films “Relative Stranger” and “Finding Buck McHenry” and more.
Mori founded her eponymous firm, Toshiko Mori Architect in 1981 in New York and has since worked on the development of libraries, museums, universities and residents. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.