Frank, Ann

Ann Frank is a fashion, culture, and design historian based in New York. She has worked in the art, fashion, and design industries for seventeen years and began her career working for William Doyle Galleries and Christie's in New York City. Through her experience as an appraiser of fine furniture, decorations, couture, and jewelry, Ms. Frank frequently served as a liaison for private collectors and connoisseurs. In addition, Ms. Frank has been teaching for ten years and is currently a Part-Time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Fashion where she teaches fashion history from antiquity through the present. Ms. Frank has been a guest speaker at Pratt, and lectured at the New York School of Interior Design where she taught American and European Design History. Ms. Frank received her undergraduate degree from New York University and earned her Master of Arts in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She also attended the Horace Mann School. Ann Frank was born and raised in Manhattan where the city's vast cultural influences captivated her at a young age. She enjoys visiting Paris, a city with rich history and homage to the past that inspired her areas of specialty, French fashion and decorative arts.