[1][2] An artist and political activist, Robert Cronbach, was hired by the Works Progress Administration to create public art.

Cronbach was also commissioned to create sculptures for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and the U.N. General Assembly Meditation Room in New York.

[3] In 2017, the beloved sculpture spent approximately a year and a half at a Bronx-based art restoration facility to fix damages.

Cronbach had originally intended for the sculpture to oxidize over time but environmental effects had rapidly aged the FIT monument.

[4] On September 22, 2018, the Eye of Fashion was returned to its home outside the Goodman Center, on the southwest corner of 27th Street and Seventh Avenue.