Fashion History

 

 

IN THE MEDIA

 

PUBLIC SPEAKING

 

Wearing white

before

Memorial Day?

Make sure you listen to my

WGBH-News radio

commentary!

 

 

Is fashion political?

My commentary on NPR's

"On the Media"

 

All about the 1990s!

 

February 2020 at WGBH:

Fashion Gets a Conscience

 

How visionary apparel companies, organizations, and designers introduced green and ethical fashion, organic fabric, upcycling, and zero waste.

 

Watch the video!

 

 

All about the 1980s!

 

February 2019 at WGBH:

Fashioning Your Personal Truth

 

How four budding fashion and social movements -- hiphop, preppie, punk, and gay culture --

flowered in that decade

and how they've led fashion

and culture ever since.

 

Watch the video!

 

EXHIBITIONS

TEACHING

 

 

Global Heritage

of 20th-Century Fashion and Art

 

 

Class topics

@The New Pantheon

on Instagram

 MY ILLUSTRATED FASHION HISTORIES, 2011-PRESENT

 

 

Style For All:

Why Fashion,

Invented by Kings,

Now Belongs

To All of Us

(Lulu Press, 2011)

 

(Out of print)

 Reviews

 

Tiaras

and Social Change:

 

The Long and

Fabulous History

of the

Queen of Accessories

 

Cool Hunting:

Cleopatra to Afropunk

 

An Illustrated

Fashion History

(2017)

 

Everyday Fabulous