About Fig

In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath imagines life as a fig tree, its branches heavy with fruit—each fig a beautiful, distinct possible future.

FIG Magazine is a student-founded Columbia University publication inspired by this image, exploring culture through clothing, a medium that carries our interior lives out into the world. At FIG, each spread is its own fruit, glowing with a world and waiting to be shared.

We explore the diverse cultures of our campus, our city, and the world beyond, using fashion as a shared language that bridges cultural silos. For us, every story, culture, and identity is a fig: ready to be chosen.

So, take a bite.