Faculty

Profile

Anthony 'Ashwin' Palliparambil, Jr., is an artist and educator who lives and works in both Brooklyn, NY and Bowie, MD. He also serves on the editorial boards of both The Fashion Studies Journal and The Fashion and Race Database. A native of the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Anthony is devoted to exploring beauty both as a maker and a thinker. His interests lie in exploring the bridge between technology and the arts.

Anthony has over ten years experience in the creative industry, from managing a non-profit art gallery, to supporting his own art practice, to recent forays into art and design criticism. He has an extensive exhibition history, and has been awarded four permanent public art commissions. He is also in the public art collections of the University of Virginia Children's Hospital and the University of West Virginia.

A graduate of the Master's in Fashion Studies program at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY, Anthony has published a variety of reviews of fashion exhibitions and collection reviews during New York Fashion Week. Likewise, he has freelanced as an installation assistant on two globally recognized fashion exhibitions.

Degrees Held

2017 - MA, Fashion Studies -- Parsons School of Design

2010 - BA, Studio Art // Minor: Art History -- University of Maryland, College Park

Recent Publications

Notes on Materiality, Ritual, and Grief, The Fashion Studies Journal, July 7, 2021.
Teaching from Home: The Uncertainties of Faculty Life During a Pandemic, The Fashion Studies Journal, December 16, 2020.
Review: The Tuxedo Redefined: Formality, Fluidity, and Femininity at 80WSE Gallery at NYU, The Fashion Studies Journal, August 13, 2020.
Review: Gray Area: Authenticity, Value, and Subversion in Fashion at 80WSE Gallery at NYU, The Fashion Studies Journal, July 11, 2019
Review: Eckhaus Latta: Possessed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Fashion Studies Journal, October 22, 2018
Review: Guo Pei: Couture Beyond at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, The Fashion Studies Journal, March 5, 2018
A Review of fashion after Fashion at the Museum of Arts and Design, Fashion Projects Blog, May 31, 2017.
A Review of Black Fashion Designers at The Museum at FIT, Fashion Projects Blog, February 26, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Marc Jacobs FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 17, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Michael Kors Collection FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 16, 2017.
All the Accessories We Loved at Kate Spade New York's Spring 2017 Presentation, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 15, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Coach 1941 FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 15, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Moncler Grenoble FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 15, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Naeem Khan FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 15, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Tory Burch FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 15, 2017.
10 Best Looks from 3.1 Phillip Lim FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 14, 2017.
10 Best Looks from Alexander Wang FW17, Harper's BAZAAR Singapore, February 13, 2017.
Matmos Made an Entire Album Using Only a Washing Machine, i-D Magazine, February 19, 2016.
Prima Materia, Alchemical Vessels Exhibition Catalog, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 2013.