Faculty

Alla Eizenberg is a Part-Time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Fashion, NYC and a PhD candidate at the Department of Design at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Her research investigates luxury fashion products, in which dirt is referenced and interpreted as a design feature. This work raises questions about the means available to fashion for interpretation and glamorization of dirt, and considers the role of dirt in fashion’s meaning making process. Starting her career as a fashion designer, Eizenberg has worked for and collaborated with fashion companies and institutions in Belgium (installation at “Vitrine,” Antwerp Fashion Institute FFI, Antwerp, 2007, ‘Labels’ Antwerp, 2009), Italy (Purple, Milan, 2004; Caraceni di Milano and Severgnini, Milan 2005), and France (Maison de la Création, 2011). She started her own up-scale menswear line Maison Rouge Homme in 2005, during which time she also worked with renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin and Bat Sheva Dance Company, and started teaching fashion design. She holds an MA in Fashion Studies (2017) from Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York. 

Parsons School of Design, ADHT, MA in Fashion Studies  (2017)

Thesis: The study analyzes the contemporary presence of the ordinary in fashion, seeing it as an active participant in the broader cultural discourse. Focusing on the case study of Vetements the Thesis identifies three distinct aspects characterizing this new phenomenon: the identity and habitus of the cultural producer, the notion of everydayness, and the yearning for authenticity.

Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel BDes. in Fashion Design (2000)

May 2023: “Clothing Inside: Addressing American Prisons,” exhibition review. Fashion Theory, Vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 613-619

June 2021: “Making Ordinary Fashionable: the New Sartorial Languages from Russia and China” co-authored with Hazel Clark in Rethinking Fashion Globalization, Sarah Cheang, Erica de Greef, Yoko Takagi (eds.) Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

January 2021: “With No Twist: The Metamodern Sartorial Statement of Vetements.”— chapter in Fashion, Dress, and Post‐Postmodernism, Andrew Reilly José Blanco F. (eds.) Bloomsbury.