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Guy Debord's Game of War: A Conversation With Emmanuel Guy

Thursday, November 14 6:00 pm Kellen Auditorium 66 5th Avenue We know Guy Debord (1931-1994) as a poet, filmmaker, artist, revolutionary theorist, editor and founder...

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender - A New Book by Rachel Lifter

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender a new book by Rachel Lifter, assistant professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons was just published by Bloomsbury and is currently available...

Fashion: Now & Then

Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2, LIM will host the Fashion: Now and Then conference. Current MAFS student, Noel Yeong-An Liao (MAFS ’20), and several MAFS alum will be presenting. FASHION: NOW & THEN...

Fashion: Now & Then

Plot(s) Call for Editorial Board Members

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Context Released Oct. 17th

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Context, a new book co-edited by Heike Jenss, associate professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons and Viola Hofmann, lecturer at TU Dortmund...

MA Fashion Studies Presents: Fashion Cultures 2017 Lecture Series

By adht | Published: June 8, 2017

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Parsons Festival 2018: Art and Design History and Theory Graduate Student Symposium

April 10, 2018 11:18 am

Thursday, May 3 1000 am – 5:00 pm Friday, May 4 10:00 am – 5:00 pm The Bark Room, Room M104 Sheila C. Johnson Design...

Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab Presents: The 4th Annual CURATORIAL SLAM!

March 29, 2018 1:13 pm

Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab Presents: The 4th Annual CURATORIAL SLAM! April 6, 2018, 4-7pm Dorothy Hirshon Suite (room I-205)/ 55 W. 13th Street/...

MADE IN NEW YORK: The 27th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design

March 8, 2018 3:39 pm

MADE IN NEW YORK: The Twenty-Seventh Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design April 26 and 27, 2018 Lecture Room (Lower Level)...

Art as Adventure: Going Beyond

January 29, 2018 3:38 pm

Rosemary O’Neill, Associate Professor of Art History, co-edited and contributed to Art as Adventure: Going Beyond, which was recently published by Cambridge Scholars. The anthology...

Announcing MAFS 2018 Lecture Series – Fashion Culture: The Body Politic

January 29, 2018 3:32 pm

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Guy Debord's Game of War: A Conversation With Emmanuel Guy

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender - A New Book by Rachel Lifter

Fashion: Now & Then

Plot(s) Call for Editorial Board Members

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Context Released Oct. 17th

MA Fashion Studies Presents: Fashion Cultures 2017 Lecture Series

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Recent Posts

Parsons Festival 2018: Art and Design History and Theory Graduate Student Symposium

Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab Presents: The 4th Annual CURATORIAL SLAM!

MADE IN NEW YORK: The 27th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design

Art as Adventure: Going Beyond

Announcing MAFS 2018 Lecture Series – Fashion Culture: The Body Politic

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