Faculty

An award-winning designer, Fox has created numerous experimental and innovative clothing collections that were sold internationally, and during her career as a designer Fox was awarded the Crafts Council Development Award, The Jerwood Fashion Prize, the Peugeot Design Award for Textiles, the Stanley Picker Fellowship for Design, and was nominated by the Arts Council England for the Prince Philip Design Prize. During this time her work acquired extensive press coverage in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i-D magazine, Vogue, Time Out London, Purple, Tank, Nylon, The Face, Sleaze Nation, Dazed & Confused, Self Service, Creative Week and Wire magazine amongst many others.

Her work has been included in over 50 prestigious exhibitions across America, Australia, China, Europe, Israel, Japan, Russia and the UK, in notable venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Design Museum, Barbican Art Gallery, Crafts Council, ICA in London, Modemuseum in Antwerp, Museum at FIT and Grand Central Station in New York, International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, Berlin Film Festival, Tokyo Design Museum, Design Museum Holon and many touring British Council exhibitions that have toured globally. Her work has been published in over 30 books and 15 exhibition catalogues broadly across fashion, design, and art journals, as well as academic publications.

Fox has appeared as a speaker at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MOMI in New York, International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, Barbican Art Gallery, ICA, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Hong Kong Design Centre and the World Cities Creative Forum in Shanghai. She has collaborated with Nobel Prize scientists, choreographers, film-makers, curators, architects, photographers, artists, communication designers, sound designers and writers. Key collaborations include choreographer Wayne McGregor of Random Dance, Medical Research Council UK, Michael Clark Dance Company, Ab Rogers Design, Tomato Design Agency, sound artist Scanner, photographer Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio and English Heritage Trust.

Selected for the Business of Fashion - #BOF | The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry, the most influential and authoritative list in the global fashion industry. https://www.businessoffashion.com/bof500/

Founding Director of the MFA Fashion Design and Society, Parsons School of Design, New York from 2008 – 2021

Tenured in 2012

1994 –1996 Central Saint Martins, London MA FASHION   DISTINCTION   1990 –1993 Central Saint Martins, London BA HONS TEXTILES   1ST CLASS HONOURS

Recent Press

BRITISH ATTIRE - https://www.british-attire.com/thethread/we-like-your-look-shelley-fox, Published online October 2025

“Punk is Twee” Editorial, Cupboard Magazine, Published in April 2025

ODDA MAGAZINE - https://www.instagram.com/p/DA6mZSvyj-y/?hl=zh-cn&img_index=1, Published online October 2024  

Writing Commission

Spring 2022 -Commissioned to write on the exhibition Ad Reinhardt, Color Out of Darkness, curated by James Turrell, Pace Gallery, New York.

Consultancy

2025– 2026 - Consultant for both the 2015 and 2026 Vilcek Prizes in Fashion and Design, The Vilcek Foundation, New York

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