A member of FIT's History of Art department since 2015, Dr. De Young specializes in the intersection of art and fashion. Her research and writing interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and literature, visual and material culture, modernism and fashion. She is the editor of Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 (I.B. Tauris 2017/Bloomsbury 2019). Her work has been generously supported by grants and fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty, Kress and Mellon Foundations. Before coming to FIT, Dr. De Young previously taught art and fashion history at Harvard, Wellesley, Lesley and Northwestern University. She has a strong interest in curatorial work and contributed to the “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée d’Orsay, and Art Institute of Chicago. She has held fellowships at the Met’s Costume Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Northwestern’s Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art. She is currently completing a book on discourses surrounding fashion and feminine types in works exhibited at the Paris Salon (1864-1884).
Kenna Libes (BA History, Georgetown; MA Public Humanities, Brown; MA Fashion & Textile History, FIT) and has worked in textile conservation, curation, and collections management at various institutions along the East Coast.
She is currently a PhD student at Bard Graduate Center in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Her research interests include BIPOC in historic fashion and size diversity in the museum collection.
Karina Reddy holds an MA in Fashion Communication from Central Saint Martins. She also studied at Boston University and London College of Fashion. With a BA in history, her research at Central Saint Martins explored how the body was fashioned in the 1920s. A self-proclaimed museum nerd, she has a keen interest in fashion museums and volunteered at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. She has also worked at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her blog, Reddy-to-Wear, features articles on fashion and travel, while her writing has been featured on The Fashion Conversation and The Fashion Studies Journal.
Dr. Lourdes M. Font (B.A. Middlebury College, M.A./Ph.D. New York University) is Professor in the History of Art department and in the M.A. Program in Fashion and Textile Studies at FIT, and she is the Early Fashion Designer Database Project Director. Previously, she taught at the Parsons School of Design and at New York University. Among her recent publications is a contribution to Fashion Mix: Modes d’ici. Créateurs d’ailleurs (2014), the catalogue to an exhibition at the Musée National de l’Immigration in collaboration with the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris. She has also contributed articles and essays to Oxford Art Online, West 86th, Business History, and Fashion Theory.
Michele Majer is Assistant Professor of European and American Clothing and Textiles at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture and a Research Associate at Cora Ginsburg LLC. She specializes in the 18th through 20th centuries, with a focus on exploring the material object and what it can tell us about society, culture, literature, art, economics and politics. She curated the exhibition and edited the accompanying publication, Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke, which examined the phenomenon of actresses as internationally known fashion leaders at the turn-of-the-20th century and highlighted the printed ephemera (cabinet cards, postcards, theatre magazines, and trade cards) that were instrumental in the creation of a public persona and that contributed to and reflected the rise of celebrity culture.
Harper holds a Masters degree in Fashion and History Studies: History, Theory and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has focused much of her research on the nineteenth century, particularly millinery and theatre costume. Deeply passionate about history and the arts, Harper is dedicated to bringing stories from the past to life.
Summer is a Brooklyn-based fashion historian, content creator, and freelance curator. She holds a BA in Communications & Media from the City University of New York and completed her MA coursework in Fashion and Textile Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Jiyun Kim is an Art History and Museum Professions student (class of 2020) at FIT and was a Spring 2019 Fashion History Timeline intern. She researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018) and HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion & Art (Spring 2019), taught by Professor De Young.
Engel is a History student studying in a joint degree program at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the College of William and Mary in Virginia (class of 2019). She served as a Fashion History Timeline social media and design intern in Summer 2017.
Eleanor Burholt is a Fashion Design major at FIT (class of 2022) and a Presidential Scholar, pursuing minors in Art History, Fashion History Theory and Culture, and English. Eleanor has professional experience working with theatrical and research-based costumes. She worked as a Fashion History Timeline intern from Summer 2020 through Summer 2021.
Anna Mariotti, an Interior Design student at FIT (class of 2023), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2020), taught by Professor De Young.
Julia Tomeo, a Fashion Design BS student (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion & Impressionism" (SP18), taught by Prof. De Young.
Sheyenne Lacy wrote this while serving as a Fashion History Timeline Intern (Spring 2018). An avid art blogger, Lacy is an Art History and Museum Professions major at FIT (Class of 2018).
Rose Chiarello, a Textile/Surface Design BFA student (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Professor De Young.
Nico is a junior in the Art History and Museum Professions B.S. program pursuing minors in Fashion History, Theory, and Culture, Film and Media Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. They are most interested in the intersection between fashion, gender, and identity.
Wenhui Yue, a Fashion Design BFA student (class of 2018) with minors in the History of Art and Asian Studies, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (SP17), taught by Prof. De Young.
Michelle McVicker is the Collections and Education Assistant at the Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology since Fall 2018. She previously worked as a Collections Management Assistant at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her Fashion Studies MA at Parsons School of Design in 2017.
Giada Lattanzio graduated in Medieval and Byzantine Art History at Ca' Foscari University (Venice, Italy). During her master's degree she did an internship at the Centre for Early Medieval Studies (Brno, Czech Republic) for the journal Convivium - Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium and the Mediterranean. She is now starting her PhD at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). Her research focuses on Early Medieval art, especially Byzantine, but her interests include Applied Arts, History of Fashion and their interconnections with art.
Juliana Bui, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism, taught by Prof. De Young (Spring 2018).
Si Ting (Jess) Liu, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote these essays, while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Spring 2019) and HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Nicole Druzhinsky, a FIT Advertising and Marketing Communications student with minors in Art History and English (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2017), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Jessica Pandolfo, a Technical Design BS student at FIT (class of 2019) researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018) taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Sandra Muniz, a Fashion Design - Special Occasion BFA student at FIT (Class of 2017), wrote this researched and wrote this in Spring 2017 while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism, taught by Prof. Justine De Young. She has a special love for bridal design, art history, and historical garments.
Sharikiana Ratliff, a Fashion Design-Sportswear BFA student at the Fashion Institute of Technology (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism with Prof. Justine De Young. She minored in Art History and enjoys museums, musicals, and macaroni and cheese.
Ariel Pincus is a recent graduate of FIT (class of 2020), receiving her degree in Direct and Interactive Marketing, as well as double minors in Fashion History, Theory and Culture, and Film and Media Studies.
Marisa Hetzler, a Communication Design Foundation BS student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (SP18), taught by Prof. De Young.
Oleg Mindiak, an Art History and Museum Professions BS and Fashion History, Theory & Culture minor at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: 20th-Century Fashion & Art (Spring 2019), taught by Prof. De Young.
Yana Glemaud, a non-degree student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Fiona Ibbetson is a London-based researcher in fashion studies and design history. She is a recent graduate of MA Fashion Critical Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Exeter.
Erika Eng, an Illustration BFA alumna at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume in Fall 2016, taught by Professor Justine De Young. With a minor in History of Art, she also served as a Fashion History Timeline assistant in Summer 2017. She is currently a freelance illustrator and designer in Los Angeles.
Joseph Pollard, an Advertising Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Nicole Hamberger, a fashion design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Professor De Young.
Karen A. Odom, a non-degree student studying fashion history, sewing, and tailoring at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 215: The History of Menswear (Spring 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Kaitlin Barton, a BFA Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (SP17), taught by Prof. Justine De Young. In addition to her studies, Barton works as a personal stylist.
Cecilia Wolf is a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2023), minoring in Fashion History, Theory, and Culture. She researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Spring 2020), taught by Prof. Raissa Bretaña.
Kennedie O'Byrne, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, class of 2023, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2022), taught by Prof. De Young.
Lane Markulics, an Advertising and Marketing Communications student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: 20th-Century Fashion and Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. De Young.
Lana Bittman is an Assistant Professor-Librarian, Head of Electronic and Serials Resources at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She oversees the Periodicals and Electronic Resource Services unit, supervising all aspects of public and technical services for electronic resources, print serials, and fashion and trend forecast collections. Lana holds an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Lana is an MA candidate (May 2018) in FIT's Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program.
Natalie Przybylski, an Fashion Business Management BFA student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Josefina De La Torre is a recent graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara (class of 2020) with an interest in Latinx art and fashion and how the two influence one another. Some of her favorite art is medieval manuscripts, Mexican calendar art, 19th century corsetry, and Alphonse Mucha prints.
Madeleine Zwolan is a Fashion Business Management AAS student at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Class of 2019). She researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2017), taught by Prof. De Young.
Victor Perez Maldonado, a Fine Arts AAS student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Sarah Bochicchio holds a BA from Brown University and an MSt from the University of Oxford, where she studied the visual, sartorial, and textual representations of early modern English queenship. She lives in New York, where she works as a Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a freelance writer at her couch.
An International Trade and Marketing BS student at FIT (class of 2020), Maino wrote this essay while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume, HA 346: Twentieth-century Fashion and Art, and HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism, taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Brittany Segal, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. De Young.
Leslie Calderon, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Raissa Bretaña is a New York City-based fashion historian who holds a M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She currently teaches fashion history courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Pratt Institute. Additionally, Raissa hosts a video series for Glamour, in which she fact-checks historical costumes in popular media. Having previously received a B.F.A. in Costume Design from Boston University, Raissa has worked professionally in theatre, opera, film, and television. She continues to consult on historical costumes for film and television productions.
Faith Cooper works in the education department at The Museum at FIT. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history and museum professions at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is currently a graduate student in FIT's Fashion and Textile program. Her past work experiences include Vogue, Cooper-Hewitt, Christie's, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was also a contributing author to the book Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT (Skira, 2019).
Emily Omesi, a Haute Couture and pattern-making certification student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Professor De Young.
I am a dress historian, curator, and author. With over a decade of experience as a fashion designer working commercially, I have built a full-rounded knowledge of the contemporary fashion world rooted in historical perspective.
My interests include 19th, 20th, and 21st century fashion; retail history in New York; Gilded Age America; the American photographer Alice Austen; Israeli fashion; and the history of the luxury brand Gottex which was the topic of my MA thesis paper and an exhibition I curated at the Laurie M. Tisch gallery in New York. I am continuously expanding my interests; I research and write on fashion and its history, using it as a window to history in a broader social and cultural contexts.
Ashley Nargentino, a Textile/Surface Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism" (Spring 2020), taught by Prof. De Young.
Zorya is an Advertising and Marketing Communications major (class of 2018), with minors in art history and English. Originally from Switzerland, she researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism," (SP18) taught by Prof. De Young.
Vicky Yang, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Spring 2021), taught by Professor Justine De Young.
Moreau, an Accessories Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this in Fall 2015 while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume, taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Corinne Fuentes, an Advertising and Marketing Communications BS student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Isabel Levit, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Professor Justine De Young.
Courtney Rivera, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA346: 20th Century Fashion & Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Anastasiya Induchnaya, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: "Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles" (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Rebecca Kreamer, a fashion design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Judson Graham Williams, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this article while taking HA301: Fashion and Impressionism in Spring 2020, a course taught by Prof. De Young.
Laurel Ives, a graphic artist, and a continuing ed student, wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume, in Fall 2017 with Professor Justine De Young.
Zhana Barrett, a Technical Design BS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Katherine Prior, an Art History and Museum Professions student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 347: Costume and Fashion in Film in Fall 2020, taught by Prof. Raissa Bretana.
Patrice Nardiello, an International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries BS student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Ava, a Fashion Business Management AAS student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Vanessa Watson, a Production Management & Technical Design BS student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Joyce Kim, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (Class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Allison Shaw, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (SP17) with Prof. De Young.
Den Ly, an Accessories Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Madeline Kaminski, a FIT student majoring in Fashion Design (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism" (SP18) taught by Professor De Young.
Molly Sullivan, an Advertising & Marketing Communications BS student (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion & Art (SP19), taught by Prof. De Young.
Claire Jung, a Communication Design AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (SP22), taught by Prof. De Young.
Jazmin Montalvo, a Computer Animation and Interactive Media BFA student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Nicolas Galvis, an Advertising and Marketing Communications BS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Madeline Wilson, a Textile Development and Marketing AAS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking TS 215: History of Textile Trade and Technology (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Keren Ben-Horin.
Kaylee Spiteri, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion & Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. De Young.
Francesca, a fashion design student at FIT with a minor in art history, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: GLBL Fashion Ancient Origins to Modern Spring 2021, taught by Prof. Justin De Young.
Julianna Shehaiber, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: History of Western Costume Fall 2017, taught by Prof. De Young.
Julia Trantel is a student studying Advertising and Marketing Communications at the Fashion Institute of Technology (class of 2018). She is an Economics, English, and Art History minor. She researched and wrote this while enrolled in HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Honors), taught by Prof. Justine De Young, in Spring 2017.
Lorenza Smith received a Masters in the History of Art at the Università degli Studi di Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. She’s the author of Venice: Art and History (2011). She currently teaches at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology in the History of Art Department; she previously taught at New York University, SPS, and worked for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Venice, Italy. Her research focuses on art, architecture and costumes of Venice.
Sydney Squires, a Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing BS student at FIT (class of 2021), with a minor in the History of Art, researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (SP20), taught by Prof. Raissa Bretaña.
Shaan Chagan spent 10 years in advertising and software sales, until one day he realized a serious interest in fashion was calling him.
Now he's the Founder of the fashion-based media company and publication, Soirée, which he dubs an "attack on GQ." Living his early life in San Diego, he now resides in Austin, where he eats too much Tex-Mex (and he's fine with it).
Lauren Costanza, an Illustration student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (FA17), taught by Prof. De Young.
Gina DeLuca, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Morgan Wozniak, an advertising and marketing communication student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: 20th-Century Fashion and Art (SP19), taught by Professor De Young.
Jingyi Hu, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Grace Schechter, an Advertising and Marketing Communications Bachelor's student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2022), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Daniel Englander, a Fashion Business Management major at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Professor Justine De Young.
Tianna Abel, a Fashion Design major (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. De Young
Kyara Vela, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class 2023), researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (SP21), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Loise Eisenhart. 22 year old Swiss student. Photography Major (class of 2019). Minoring in Fashion History, enrolled in HA344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017) with Professor De Young.
Fiona Hagengimana, an International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries BS student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Kriti Bhagat, a fashion design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: "The History of Western Costume" (FA18), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Melissa Griffo, a fashion design student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Sammi WS Chan, an Illustration BFA student (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume in Fall 2017, with Professor Justine De Young.
Rebecca Herrera has an Associate's Degree in Visual Arts (2017) from Suffolk County Community College. As a Bachelor's student in Art History (class of 2020), she researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Jaipreet Uppal is a multidisciplinary designer with an emphasis on visual design located in New York/New Jersey, with a degree in Interior Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a minor in art history and a degree in Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design. Specializing in many different aspects of the design industry from Interiors, experiential design, creative direction, and photography. All posts were researched and written while taking HA 346: 20th-Century Fashion and Art (SP19), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Dana Notine, an Art History and Museum Professions BS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
John E. Bell, a Menswear AAS student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 215: The History of Menswear (Spring 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Bianca Jeffs, a fashion design BFA student specializing in intimate apparel design at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism" (SP18), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
India Chudnow, a Fine Arts AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Donna Kay, a fashion design student at FIT (Class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Darnell Lisby is a candidate completing the second year of the Master of Arts Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice Program of the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has completed research for the Museum at FIT and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for various exhibitions. His contribution to the Fashion History Timeline is his first published work.
Julia Cork, a Fashion Design BFA student (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism" (SP17), taught by Prof. De Young.
Sophia is a Textile Development and Marketing student at FIT. She researched and wrote this while taking TS 215: "History of Textile Trade and Technology" in Fall 2018 taught by Prof. Patrice George.
Juvy Ann Ignacio, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (SP20), taught by Prof. Raissa Bretaña.
Ofir Hizkiyev, an Interior Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2023), researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Alex Williams, an Illustration AAS student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Shani Hashemi, a jewelry design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Bridget Clancy, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT Class of 2019, researched and wrote this while taking HA346 in Spring 2019, taught by Professor Justine DeYoung.
Hanjie Guo, an undergraduate student in the BAAH program of SAIC (class of 2023). Hanjie has a great passion for the history of art and its enlightening impact on the present time. She wrote this essay while taking a summer session ARTHI 2143: Artists as Stylists?: Fashion Signifiers in Art, instructed by Prof. Caroline Bellios, which helped her develop a fascination with the costumes and their language in artworks.
Shinhwa Koo, an Art History and Museum Professions BS student at FIT (class of 2016), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young. She has developed her expertise in art history and museum studies through various internship experiences at arts and cultural institutions including the Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum, Asia Society, Korea Society and the Museum at FIT.
Alexandra Fanelli, an Art History and Museum Professions BS student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Michelle Porrazzo, a Fashion Design BFA student (class of 2018), with minors in the History of Art and Fashion History, Theory, & Culture, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2017), taught by Prof. De Young.
Natalie Boyce, a Photography BFA student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Spring 2019), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
I am Colleen Rodgers, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT. I researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion Ancient Origins to Modern Styles 2021, taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Juyeon Kim (nickname: Joy), a Technical Design BS student (class of 2018), with a minor in art history, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young.
Jennifer Pronesti received her B.A. in Political Science and Urban Studies from University of Richmond, her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and will receive an M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology in May, 2018. Non-profit board work for landmarks, museums and historic houses led Jennifer to embark on a second career in the field of museum studies. Jennifer has interned two summers at Drexel University’s Historic Costume Collection processing donations and assisting with the retrospective exhibition, Immortal Beauty, and completed a large TMS project for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Costume and Textiles department. Jennifer’s career interests include costume research, collection management and archiving vintage collections.
Carmen Keist, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Family and Consumer Sciences Department at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. Her research interests include twentieth-century dress history, specifically exploring plus-sized women’s ready-to-wear fashions. She published an article on stout women’s ready-to-wear fashions of the 1920s in the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal in 2013; an article on stout women’s fashions of the 1910s in Dress in 2017; and an article on how stout women were left out of the high-fashion industry in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture in 2018. She continues to explore this topic throughout the 20th century.
Anna Metelina, an independent scholar interested in Textiles and Sustainability in Fashion, researched and wrote this while taking TS 215: History of Textile Trade & Technology (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. George.
Soyoung Eom, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 347: Costume & Fashion in Film (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. Raissa Bretaña.
Paige Campana, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles in Fall 2021, taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Nicole Naim, an International Trade & Marketing student at FIT (class of 2018), with minors in Fashion History, Psychology, and Design Thinking, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017) taught by Professor De Young.
Weerada Muangsook, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Professor De Young.
Vicki Kalonaros, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class of 2019) with a minor in the History of Art, researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: "20th-century Fashion and Art" with Prof. De Young (SP19)
Liem Ngo, a Menswear AAS student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 215: The History of Menswear (Spring 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young. Interests include denim, workwear, and CM.
Tyffany Do, a Graphic Design BFA student at FIT (Class of 2016), researched and wrote this while taking HA 215: The History of Menswear (Spring 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Remy Valentine, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Shelly Ordonez, a Technical Design BS Degree student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Dr. Justine De Young.
Brian Centrone, a Costume Studies graduate from New York University, researched and wrote a version of this essay while taking History of Costume II: The 19th Century in 2018, taught by Prof. Elizabeth Morano. He presented his research in front of John Singer Sargent's Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes in the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Megan Musella, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: "Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles" (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Matthew P. Freeman, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2020) researched and wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young. Matthew is an aspiring costume designer, some of his favorite productions he designed and constructed costumes for include "Anything Goes," "Legally Blonde Jr." "Thoroughly Modern Millie," and "Mary Poppins" you can see all of his work at www.designsbymatthewphilip.com
Bethany Gingrich is an M.A. candidate in Fashion and Textile Studies program at FIT. She has worked at Special Collections and College Archives at FIT, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and The Valentine Museum. She enjoys researching 20th-century fashion design, journalism, and manufacturing.
Julianna Horn, an Advertising and Marketing Communications Bachelor's degree student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Jennifer Guzman, an International Trade and Marketing BS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young.
Mackenzie Pieton, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: "Fashion and Impressionism" (SP18), taught by Prof. De Young.
Conor Haffey, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT (Class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Artisha Kwak, a Communication Design Foundation AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Meg D'Elia, a Film and Media AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Nataliya Halbout, a Menswear AAS student at FIT (Class of 2016), researched and wrote this while taking HA 215: The History of Menswear (Spring 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Celeste Rubenstein, a Fashion Business Management BS student and Fashion History, Theory & Culture minor at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (SP19), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Sunah Choi, a fashion design student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (Spring 2020), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Jackson Farner, a Fashion Design major student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion History 2021 Spring Semester, taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Madison, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young. She plans to continue her studies in the Bachelor's Program.
Carson Poplin is a second year master's degree student in FIT's Fashion and Textiles Studies program. This paper was researched and written while taking FT 631: Fashion in Film, a special topics course offered in the fall of 2017, taught by Professor Lourdes Font.
Taylor Sameyah, an Illustration BFA student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (FA15), taught by Prof. De Young.
Melanie Wong is a Fashion Design AAS student at the Fashion Institute of Technology (Class of 2019). She currently works at the alternative brand Whatever 21 and trains in aerial acrobatics in her "free" time. She researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (SP17), taught by Prof. De Young.
Samarth Puthanmadhom is a junior at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. He is an avid learner and has a great passion for design. Recently, Samarth began writing his own fashion blog which prompted him to learn more about the fashion industry. He researched and wrote this during the summer of 2020.
Lindsey LaBarbera, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Michaela, an Advertising and Marketing Communications major (class of 2018) with a minor in the history of art, researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (SP18), taught by Prof. De Young.
Katsiaryna Kolesava, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2019), wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Caroline Haein Lee, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young. She earned minors in both the History of Art and Fashion History, Theory, and Culture.
Hyo Jeong Lee, a Fashion Design AAS student at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: "The History of Western costume" (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Alex Berlingieri, an Interior Design AAS student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2020), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Lindsey Kaplan, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: "Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles" (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Brian Wexler, a fashion design student (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young.
Anne Higonnet works on the history of art since the seventeenth century, on childhood, and on collecting. A 1980 Harvard College B.A, she received her PhD from Yale University in 1988. Her work has been supported by Getty, Guggenheim, and Social Science Research Council fellowships, as well as by grants from the Mellon, Howard and Kress Foundations. She has published five print books as well as many essays, and edited a partly-paper, partly-online project on Anna Hyatt Huntington’s 1902-1936 New York City sculpture. She lectures widely to public audiences, and is now Art Editor of Public Books.
Sarah Heditsch, a Photography and Related Media BFA student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. De Young.
I'm a technical design student at FIT and I love learning about the construction of a garment. I wrote this while taking HA344: The History of Western Costume (FA17), taught by Prof. De Young.
Minami Aoki, a fashion design student at FIT (class of 2020), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Emily Orta, an advertising and marketing communication major (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion & Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Amanda Boggio, an Interior Design AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Orgins to Modern Styles (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. De Young.
Fehler entered textile conservation by way of theatrical and historical costuming. She holds a BA in Spanish Language and Culture from Russell Sage College and completed art historical research at the Universitat d'Alacant in Spain. She has been a conservation department intern at the Hispanic Society of America since March 2016.
Kimberlei McNamara, a Fashion Design BFA student at FIT (Class of 2017), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2016), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Liz Gelling, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Joely Pasetsky, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT (class of 2022), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion and Impressionism (Spring 2020), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Julia Bates, an Animation student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: "Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles" (Spring 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Yani Fong, a Fashion Business Management BS student at FIT (Class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
I am a Art Historian and Anthropologist that specializes in Fashion and Textile history and criticism. I have worked in numerous collections including: the Museum at FIT, American Museum of Natural History, and National Museum of the American Indian. Though I am an academic, I work to endorse public knowledge through decolonizing collections and offering workshops in conservation and archiving techniques. Most recently I have been working as a cultural consultant leading workshops in non-western textile history, indigenous sovereignty, traditional weaving techniques, community archiving, and reclaiming public history.
Natalie Fritz, a fashion design BFA student at FIT (class of 2019) with a specialization in ready-to-wear, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Anabelle Hernandez, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth Century Fashion and Art (SP19), taught by Dr. Justine De Young.
Alicia French, a Fashion Design AAS student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2015), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Greta Myers, a textile and surface design student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Heather Brackman, a fashion design major specializing in knitwear at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 301: Fashion & Impressionism (SP18), taught by Professor De Young.
Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Accessories Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Gun Woo was born in Korea and raised in the island of Saipan. With high interest in fine arts as well, he is pursuing a minor in Art History.
Mallory Whitfield, a Packaging Design BFA student with a minor in Creative Technology at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 346: Twentieth-Century Fashion and Art (Fall 2019), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Lane Eagles is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle focusing on the history of art and visual culture of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Her research focuses on gender, fashion, magic, and miracles. She is also an adjunct instructor of art history at Seattle Pacific University.
Daniel Verhey, a Technical Design BS student at FIT (class of 2019), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. De Young.
Amanda Gazzola, an Illustration major with a Bachelors of Fine Arts (2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume, Fall 2017, taught by Professor De Young.
Siqiao Meng, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT (class of 2021), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: The History of Western Costume (Fall 2018), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Harlie Des Roches is a 43-year-old part-time designer/tailor and living historian from Chicagoland (which totally sounds like an amusement park). When not sewing or researching, she enjoys Star Trek and vintage superhero cartoons. She lives with her family and fabric hoard in the northwest burbs. She will be featured on the cover of the newest book from the Tudor Tailor, called The Typical Tudor, as well as a multiple-page spread to model a dress and coat that she hand-sewed especially for the project. You can follow her experiences on her Facebook page.
Jamie Kuhn, a Fashion Business Management student at FIT, researched and wrote this while taking HA 237: Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles (Fall 2021), taught by Prof. Justine De Young.
Sarah Fly, a Fashion Design student at FIT (class of 2018), researched and wrote this while taking HA 344: History of Western Costume (Fall 2017), taught by Prof. De Young
Yajie niu, fashion design AAS student at FIT class of 2020, researched and wrote this while taking HA344: History of Western Costume. 3rd semester, taught by Professor Justine De Young.
My name is Jaqueline Carvalho, I am an illustration major at FIT class of 2018. I researched and wrote this while taking HA 344 History of Western Costume in the Fall Semester, taught by Prof. De Young.
