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The New School’s Parsons School of Design presents the Fashion and Diversity Series, a dynamic lineup of events featuring conversations on the intersections of fashion, race, and culture. The series aims to empower attendees to not only talk about diversity, but also to challenge them to think critically about and work to address issues around race and equality in the fashion industry.
Fashion and Jazz
Tuesday, February 2, 6-8 p.m.
Dorothy Hirshon Suite, 55 West 13th Street, Room I205
Alphonso McClendon, author of Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation, discusses the history of fashion’s dialogue with African American art and style, from Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong to many in between and beyond.
Fashion and Race
Friday, February 12, 6-8 p.m.
The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, 63 Fifth Avenue
Julee Wilson, Senior Fashion Editor at Huffington Post, moderates a conversation with designers, editors, and scholars on new narratives of blackness in fashion.
The events are part of the Black History Month at Parsons series, which is supported by the School of Fashion, The School of Art and Design History and Theory, and the University Student Senate. The series is organized by Rikki Byrd, Carly-Ann Fergus and Jasmine Young, graduate students in Parsons' Fashion Studies program. |
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Alphonso McClendon is the author of Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation—a book exploring the social and political attachments of jazz and dress as well as key themes of race, class and gender—and is an assistant professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. McClendon investigates the visual and behavioral representations of jazz and African American aesthetics that influence fashion, media and popular culture.
Julee Wilson is the Senior Fashion Editor at Huffington Post. She is a seasoned fashion and beauty editor with more than a decade of professional experience. Before transitioning to the digital world, Wilson spent a bulk of her career at Real Sımple magazine, where she ascended from assistant to the editor-in-chief to staff fashion editor. She has appeared on national television shows including "The Today Show," "CBS Early Show" and "Fox News." Most recently, Wilson penned Essence’s September 2015 cover story on American Ballet Theatre principal ballerina Misty Copeland. She serves on the advisory board for Harlem's Fashion Row.
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WHEN |
Tuesday, February 2, 6-8 p.m. (Fashion and Jazz) and Friday, February 12, 6-8 p.m. (Fashion and Race) |
WHERE |
The New School's Dorothy Hirshon Suite, 55 West 13th Street (Fashion and Jazz)
The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, 63 Fifth Avenue (Fashion and Race)
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| TICKETS |
Members of the media must rsvp with Scott Gargan at [email protected] or 212.229.5667 x 3794. Everyone else should register on the event pages—Fashion and Jazz and Fashion and Race. |
The New School’s Parsons School of Design is a global leader in design education, with programs that span the disciplines of design and the fine arts. With the launch of its fashion design program in 1906, Parsons is credited with the rise of Seventh Avenue, the epicenter of American fashion. Parsons offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Fashion Design, Associate degrees in Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing, and a Master of Fine Arts Program in Fashion Design and Society initiated through the support of Parsons alumna Donna Karan. Parsons has educated generations of leading American fashion designers, including Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Isaac Mizrahi, Tracy Reese, Narciso Rodriguez, Anna Sui, Prabal Gurung, Derek Lam, Proenza Schouler, Vena Cava, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu. For more information, visit the Parsons School of Design website.
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