Students at Parsons Paris create work that embodies a commitment to dynamic collaboration and the understanding that art and design can transform the world. Explore our diverse community’s work and learn who we are, what we care about, and how we bring together art, design, and critical thinking in changemaking ways. Below are stories featuring our students and their provocative, and boundary-breaking research and creativity across various media.
MA Fashion Studies students documented their Palais Galliera research objects as part of their work creating innovative presentations interpreting garments, visual culture, and objects.
Reflecting on the presence of cultural theory in fashion practice, faculty members Antoine Bucher, Marco Pecorari, and Justin Morin called into question assumptions historically employed in fashion studies, presenting their work in A Fashion of Theory, an exhibition created with Parsons Paris’ Fashioning Theory Lab.
BFA Fashion Design students incorporated the knowledge of master artisans from Paris’ Institut National des Métiers d’Art (INMA) into their thesis collections.
MA Fashion Studies students recently presented Localité Koché, a collaboration with the founder and designer of the French global streetwear brand Koché. The project, part of Parsons Paris’ Unmaking Fashion Media and Creative Industries Lab, tasked students with proposing new concepts for branding, retailing, and promoting Koché.
Students in Parsons Paris’ MA Fashion Studies program developed multi-media installations exploring the influence of fashion publications on global identity for an exhibition staged by the Fashioning Theory Lab.
Steven Zorrilla, Steven Zorrilla, Head of Product Development, Telfar; Designer, EVERYMANFrom the start, I was encouraged to develop my own creative process and approach to observing, researching, and questioning the world — to find my way of designing for the world I observed and the one I could envision.
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