Alumni News

07, September 2023

Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli

Congratulations to MAFS Alumni '16, Joelle Firzli We are thrilled to announce that MAFS Alumni, Joelle Firzli, has been awarded the 2023 TSA Research Travel Grant. This award supports individual TSA members in textiles research-related travel—local, regional, and international of any type, specifically for the in-person study of [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

03, September 2021

MAFS ’21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter

MAFS '21 Alum, Iesha Coppin-Forde has been featured in the FIDM Museum Newsletter: "Iesha Coppin-Forde’s internship nightlights the Afro-Caribbean experience" "Iesha Coppin-Forde, our Lori and Sal Santamaura 2021 Summer Study Grant intern, is a recent graduate of the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

06, September 2016

Fashion Studies Take(s) on Politics: ADHT Prof. Hazel Clark Collaborates with Alumna Molly Rottman

Molly Rottman, MA Fashion Studies '13 and current Assistant Director of Academic Communications at Parsons School of Design, co-authored with Professor Hazel Clark chapter 9 “Fashion Studies Take(s) on Politics” in the recently published book The International Politics of Fashion: Being Fab in a Dangerous World. From the [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

18, August 2016

Alumni Spotlight: Michelle Mcvicker

Michelle Mcvicker of the MA Fashion Studies program has been enjoying her time working as the Collections Management Assistant in The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a position that she took on while finishing up classes for the MAFS program last spring. Check out her reflective essay below for more details on [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

29, October 2015

Newly Published Works by MAFS Professors, Students and Alumni

Heike Jenss  Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture Bloomsbury [caption id="attachment_987" align="alignnone" width="366"] Image courtesy of Bloomsbury[/caption] We’re proud to congratulate Heike Jenss on her newest published research. Jenss is an Assistant Professor in the MAFS program with a focus on fashion [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

06, October 2014

Beyond the Seams: Vanessa Rosales

    Beyond the Seams is a weekly feature on the MAFS blog that will highlight students' careers, projects and more outside of the program.  Vanessa Rosales graduated from MAFS this past May, and has since gone on to reach new heights (even though she accumulated many accolades during her time in the program). Most [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

22, September 2014

WHY YOU NEED TO ATTEND PARSONS’ GRADUATE KIM JENKINS’ “FASHION TALKS”

[caption id="attachment_793" align="aligncenter" width="339"] Courtesy of Parsons' ADHT[/caption] Last week kicked off Pratt Institute's Department of Fashion's third annual "Fashion Talks," hosted by MAFS alumnae Kim Jenkins. And, if you think you're going to just hear about fashion week and blogging, think again. The series [ read more ... ]

Alumni News

26, December 2013

Alumnus Accepted into PhD Program

Becca Crawford, MAFS '13 was offered a place in the PhD of Design program at the University of Technology Sydney. She was also offered a complete government funded scholarship and will start her studies in February. Congratulations [ read more ... ]