For years, artist, designer, and educator Bridget O’Rourke has held academic positions at Parsons Paris in which she has helped the school become the robust interdisciplinary center it is today.

Since the beginning of her academic pathway, Leyla Neri, director of the BFA Fashion Design and the new MFA Fashion Design and the Arts program at Parsons Paris, has focused her efforts on building bridges between fashion design, art practices, and social science.

BBA Strategic Design and Management program director Anna Krutiy brought to the Parsons Paris community years of experience working at the center of Paris’ luxury fashion industry.

Marco Pecorari, current director of the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons Paris, has always explored new ways to connect critical theory to the fashion industry.