Fashion Studies
Parsons School of Design's MA Fashion Studies
18, February 2020
The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium
The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium, hosted by the Columbia College Chicago Fashion Studies Department, was held on Saturday February 15, 2020. American Everyday focused on the everyday, participants were asked to think beyond the constructs of high fashion and haute couture. Building on [ read more ... ]
12, November 2019
Exhibition Opening November 15th – Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference
Come support your fellow faculty at the Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference exhibition at Parsons's Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at 66 Fifth Avenue. This exhibition is curated by Francesca Granata, Associate Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory and Charlene K. Lau, Andrew [ read more ... ]
06, November 2019
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 of the Situationist International avant-garde movement. But above all else, he was a strategist: poetry, cinema, theory and the avant-garde were, for Debord, means [ read more ... ]
04, November 2019
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 for purchase. In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their [ read more ... ]
30, October 2019
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 LIM College, Maxwell Hall 216 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017 November 1 - 2, 2019 *registration [ read more ... ]
16, October 2019
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 University, will be released Thursday, October 17th by Bloomsbury. The book presents chapters from international scholars, including [ read more ... ]
08, October 2019
ADHT Dean, Rhonda Garelick, Joins Bard Graduate Center for BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
BGC LATE: JAZZ & CONVERSATION IN THE GALLERY: WOMEN DESIGNERS: CHANEL, LANVIN, BOUÉ SŒURS AND JEANNE PAQUIN Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 Thursday October 10, 2019 6:00 - 8:00 pm *free, registration required Join The Bard Graduate Center for BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation [ read more ... ]
08, October 2019
MAFS Faculty, Hazel Clark, Joins Columbia’s Panel for Kilomet109: Women, Modernity, & Sustainable Fashion in Contemporary Vietnam
Thao experimenting with natural dyes in her studio, photo, Julie Vola via kilomet109.com KILOMET109: WOMEN, MODERNITY, & SUSTAINABLE FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY VIETNAM Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute 420 West 118th Street 9th Floor, New York, NY 10027 Thursday October 10, 2019 4:30 - 8:00 pm Join [ read more ... ]
08, October 2019
MAFS Faculty, Christina Moon on Forever 21 Bankruptcy Case
Image via WashingtonPost.com Christina Moon, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory here at Parsons School of Design, was featured in TIME Magazine, NPR's All Things Considered and KCRW's podcast Press Play, this week giving her analysis of the recent Forever 21 bankruptcy [ read more ... ]
