Fashion Studies
Parsons School of Design's MA Fashion Studies
Student News
22, May 2020
Celebrating our MA Fashion Studies students!
Take a look at some amazing work from our students! Spring 2020 Parsons Festival Showcase ADHT celebrates the 2020 graduates with the launch of a website showcasing the hard work of its students. Video Virtual Exhibitions MA Fashion Studies BIAS Journal Release: The Seventh Issue Interpreting Fashion Student [ read more ... ]
Student News
10, May 2016
Book Review: The History of Modern Fashion
[caption id="attachment_1046" align="alignnone" width="200"] MAFS student Caroline Mccauley[/caption] Historical studies are often justified by the somewhat trite saying of you have to understand the past to know the present. Although, how connected is the present to the past? Is there a linear narrative between the past and the [ read more ... ]
Student News
03, December 2015
MAFS Alum Launches New Sustainable Denim Brand
The season of giving is here, and many of us are taking to the usual stores to buy gifts for our loved ones. But, as this past week has proved, there are so many alternate routes to shop other than major department stores on Black Friday; for example Small Business Saturday and Giving Tuesday. Case in point: A newly launched denim brand [ read more ... ]
Student News
03, December 2015
Call for Papers
Looking to share your research via a journal or presentation? Check out these call for papers all with upcoming deadlines! Showing Off Design and Ostentation Deadline: Contact organizer Required materials: proposal, two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. Contact Person: Ethan Robey, [ read more ... ]
Student 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 ... ]
Student News
13, July 2015
Beyond The Seams: MAFS Alumnae and Founders of Fashion Studies Journal Host Fashion Dinner
By now, it might just seem like we're bragging, but we just can't get enough of the amazing news that floods our inboxes and newsfeeds of the great works our current students and alumnae are producing. This week, we were more than ecstatic to hear that a handful of our alumnae are reviving Fashion Studies Journal (FSJ), which they [ read more ... ]
Student News
17, June 2015
Beyond the Seams: E.P. Cutler On Her Forthcoming Book ‘Art + Fashion’
When asked when she graduated from Parsons' MAFS program, E.P. Cutler doesn't just simply give the date. Instead, she adds to her 2012 commemoration a phrase that perfectly summarizes the mission of the program: the vanguard class. While she is quite literally an alumna of the very first MAFS class, she [ read more ... ]
Student News
20, May 2015
Student Hosts Fashion Panel on the African Diaspora
On May 2, our student Rikki Byrd held a fashion panel on campus titled, Identity, Innovation, Influence: Navigating New Narratives in African Diaspora Fashion. Rikki, along with two undergraduate students in Parsons' design program, worked diligently to create a program that would foster constructive conversations surrounding the use [ read more ... ]
Student News
28, April 2015
The New Issue of “Bias” Is Here!
This past Saturday, Bias launched its newest issue "Fashion and Surveillance" complete with amazing scholarly work and art from some of our students right here in MAFS and beyond. The editors of the third issue, Laura Sagadore and Stephanie Herold, challenged its contributors to "consider the ways fashion and surveillance [ read more ... ]
Student News
06, April 2015
Beyond the Seams: First-Year MAFS Student Publishes Book, ‘El bravo Tuky’
Only in his second semester as a first-year student in our MAFS program, Juan Pedro Camara is already making strides with his research outside of our program, and we couldn't be more proud. Last month, he published his first book, El Bravo Tuky (Tuky the Brave)," an incredible investigative project he undertook during his [ read more ... ]
Student News
12, November 2014
Beyond the Seams: MAFS Student Catherine Smith Launches Own e-Commerce Website
Beyond the Seams is a monthly feature on the MAFS blog that highlights students’ careers, projects and more outside of the program. Catherine Smith is a fashion stylist and writer who began her career in fashion publishing as the intern to Stefano Tonchi, Editor-in-Chief of W Magazine. She studied Political Science [ read more ... ]
Student News
22, September 2014
YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS BY OUR STUDENTS
Aside from long classes and readings that seem like they never end, students in our MAFS program spend time outside of school documenting their experiences through fashion on their coveted blogs. From entrepreneurial styling websites to short snippets of their perspectives on the industry, our students' blogs offer a sweet escape (and [ read more ... ]
Student News
15, September 2014
Our Students Head to New York Fashion Week
Although it is not a requirement, some of our students felt it very necessary to hit the tents at New York Fashion Week. While some where able to go to a couple of shows (and even sit front row!), others found it equally pleasing to go people watching. Check out shots of Leren, Veronica, Tansy, Michelle and Adelle from this season's [ read more ... ]
Student News
15, September 2014
7 of Our MAFS Students Share Their Love for New York, Parsons and More
On August 18, 35 new students by way of Canada, South Africa, and a lot of places in between, entered Parsons as first-year graduate students in Fashion Studies. They are among the 70 incoming graduate students who make up the School of Art and Design History and Theory. Each student brings with them diverse backgrounds in fashion, [ read more ... ]
Student News
28, October 2013
Second Year Student Writes Exhibition Review for Catwalk Journal
It is always exciting to see Fashion Studies students hone their skills in the field. Second Year Student Vanessa Rosales wrote a review on the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity which ran from February 26 to May 27 2013. Click here to read the review as it appeared [ read more ... ]
