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  • Tonya Blazio-Licorish

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    blaziolt@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    N - 66 Fifth Avenue

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    Tonya Blazio-Licorish

    Profile

    Tonya Blazio-Licorish is an author, visual culture historian, archives editor and educator. Her passion for visual storytelling has a connective strand to more than fifteen years in the creative industries. Through an interdisciplinary lens she explores fashion, culture and society to recover and reconnect archives with curated storytelling that sustains brand equity.

    Her first authored title “Black In Fashion, 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” written with WWD and released in September 2024 captures Women’s Wear Daily’s (WWD) lens on the contributions of Black creatives as a fluid conversation to the evolution of fashion.

    Tonya has lectured locally and internationally. She contributes to fashion education teaching courses in Fashion, Costume and Cultural History, Global and Local Leadership and Fashion Merchandising with FITNYC, Parsons School of Design and Montclair University.

    She is the curator of the Fairchild Fashion Museum which debuted in September 2022.

    Her contributions to the evolving field of fashion includes ongoing research, authored and curated content for WWD, Sourcing Journal and Rivet.

     

    Degrees Held

    AAS Fashion Design, BA Fabric Styling - Fashion Institute of Technology

    MA Visual Culture: Costume Studies, New York University 

    Certificate of Completion - Modern Journalism 

    Certificate of Completion - UX Design Foundations 

    Professional Affiliation

    Black Design Collective/BDC

    Association of Fashion Historians

    Mentor: Fashion Scholarship Fund 2025 

    FIT Alumni Association 

     

     

    Recent Publications

    WWD Black In Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence & Culture, 9/2024

    Continued contribution to WWD, Sourcing Journal, FN:  search Tonya Blazio-Licorish

    FITNYC Hue Magazine 

     

    Performances and Appearances

    2021 Black Design Collective, Featured Guest Speaker: The Fascinating History of Black Fashion Designers and Beauty, Los Angeles Community Meeting Virtual Talk. 2021

    2024 Rizzoli Book Talk with designer Jeffrey Banks

    2025 Black Dress Talks with Adrienne Jones

    2025 FIT Alumni Talk, 2025. Guest Panelist.

    2025 FIT Black In Fashion Book Talk. Moderator 

    2025, PMC BAG X WWD Style Revolution Panel: Moderator 

    2025 Custom Collaborative Black In Fashion Panel: Moderator 

    Podcast series

    Rodeo Drive Podcast 

    Innovation Insights 4 pt series on Black In Fashion 

    Harriette Cole Dream Leapers

    WWD Studio Podcast

    Black Style Antedotes 

     

    Research Interests

    Fashion and Retail history, women and labor studies, fashion and consumerism, fashion and visual cultures, photography, the art of marketing, urban futures and fashion cities, sustainability, technology futures

     

    Awards And Honors

    13th Annual Richard Martin Symposium, 2014 Graduate Thesis Presentation

    Current Courses

    Global & Local Leadership
    PMFM 5060, Spring 2025

    Future Courses

    Research 2: Capstone Project
    PMFM 5100, Summer 2025

    Past Courses

    Research 2: Capstone Project
    PMFM 5100, Summer 2024

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