Join Fashion Studies Alliance for a screening of the coming-of-age film Party Girl starring Parker Posey (1995).

The enviable wardrobe worn by Parker's character, Mary, included designs by Comme des Garçons, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Vivienne Westwood, which were interspersed with vintage styles. In addition to its colorful clothing, Party Girl is memorable for being the first feature film to premiere on the internet. Join us for a live screening of the film followed by a discussion led by FSA member Raissa Bretaña.

Please register for the event through this link.

Join Fashion Studies Alliance and Dr. Mend (aka Kate Sekules) for a mending consultation and celebration of cloth tending, a fun, creative approach to mending garments.

Bring your sick or injured garment to Dr. Mend's Surgery.

Get a personal consultation and a prescription for your rip, hole, stain, or damage. During this in-person workshop, Kate will offer her 'triage' mending advice, however, she may have to select a limited number of examples, depending on time and garments that require TLC and treatment. Her tips and advice will be applicable to other injured garments.

For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it’s back, bigger and better than ever. Kate shows mending tips and tricks and how the art of visible mending is part of an important contemporary movement to give fashion back its soul. She shares her passion for refashioning and refreshing clothes with fun facts and tips.

Please register for this in-person event here

You can also purchase Kate Sekules’ book Mend! here

Join the Rizzoli Bookstore for a discussion of fashion from head to toe! Fashion historians Raissa Bretaña and Jessica Glasscock invite you to come hear from their latest books, Shoes and Making a Spectacle. The authors will read, share delicious pictures, and dig into how such sensible things could become fine art as well as big business.

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RIZZOLI IN-PERSON EVENT COVID POLICIES

In-person events will be presented to a fully vaccinated audience at full capacity. All attendees are required to wear masks. All patrons over the age of five will be required to show proof* of having completed the COVID-19 vaccination series at least 14 days prior to the date of the event.

*Proof of vaccination will be defined as either an original vaccination card or an Excelsior Pass.

Registration will be required.

Please join Fashion Studies Alliance for our 'Getting to Know' online events where we chat with our fashion studies community from around the world about their career trajectory and current research.

On March 30, at 12 pm EST, we are joined by Laura Snelgrove.

Laura Snelgrove is the Editor- In- Chief of Fashion Studies Journal and the Editor of "Fashion and Motherhood" issue.

Laura was among the founding editors of FSJ back when it was a student publication of the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons School of Design. She’s hung on ever since, while continuing to write, research, edit, and sometimes teach in the field in New York and, since 2015, Montreal. Laura is interested in how fashion can be a tool to probe injustice and write new narratives about the world we want to see. Becoming a parent kicked off her interest in the intersections of fashion and motherhood, which is now the focus of her own research and writing.

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Join FSA for an online discussion of Vanessa Friedman's recent New York Times article "The Incredible Whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection," followed by a collective group action to implement diversity in the field of fashion studies. Participants are encouraged to select an item of fashion or dress which they feel would strengthen diversity in a museum collection. 
 
In advance of the event, please submit an image of your selection and 150 words (or less) about the object and your rationale for its inclusion in a museum. Participants will be invited to speak about their object for up to 3 minutes if they wish. All submissions will be added to the FSA Resources webpage following the event.

Click here to submit your object and text. 

Event registration HERE. 

This month’s selection is a silent film, A Woman of Paris (1923), written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

Synopsis: Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) is a desperate young woman who suspects she has been dumped by her flighty fiancé, Jean (Carl Miller), after he mysteriously stands her up at a railway station, where they were to meet in order to travel to Paris together. She goes off to Paris alone, where she meets wealthy Pierre Revel (Adolphe Menjou) and becomes his mistress. But a year later she meets Jean again and, suddenly caught between two men, isn't sure where her heart truly lies.

Here’s how to join:

- (Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu items, curated by co-founding FSA members Ariele Elia and April Calahan.

- Rent/stream A Woman of Paris on Amazon ($3.99) and view the film synchronously with us on Friday evening, Nov 13 at 7:00 PM EST

- Join co-founding member April Calahan and fashion and film scholar Raissa Bretaña as they lead a virtual discussion immediately following the film at 8:30 pm EDT.

Event registration HERE.

Friday nights are made for fashion films! FSA brings you the fifth installment of our monthly series that showcases a fashion (or fashion-adjacent) film, a thematic menu and a post-film discussion.
 
This month’s selection is Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco (2017), directed by James Crump. 

Synopsis: A documentary about fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, whose work in New York and Paris during the 1970s was highly influential. 

Here’s how to join: 

- (Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu items, curated by co-founding FSA members Ariele Elia and April Calahan. 
 
- Rent/stream Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco and view the film synchronously with us on Friday evening, October 30 at 7:00 PM EST
 
- Join Antonio scholar Alex Joseph and FSA co-founding members Ariele Elia and Kim Jenkins and as they lead a virtual discussion immediately following the film at 8:30 PM EST. 

Register here for the event.

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FSA Film Night
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
Friday, September 25, 7-9:30 PM EST

Friday nights are made for fashion films! FSA brings you the fourth installment of our monthly series that showcases a fashion (or fashion-adjacent) film, a thematic menu and a post-film discussion.
 
This month’s selection is Martin Margiela: In His Own Words (2019), directed by Reiner Holzemer. 

Synopsis: An intimate portrait of one of the most enigmatic and influential designers of his time. 
 
Here’s how to join: 

- (Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu items below, curated by co-founding FSA members Ariele Elia and April Calahan. 
 
- Rent/stream Martin Margiela and view the film synchronously with us on Friday evening, July 17 at 7:00 PM EST
 
- Join co-founding members Colleen Hill and Ariele Elia as they lead a virtual discussion immediately following the film at 8:30 pm EDT. 

Zoom link registration

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Support Sundays
Sunday, September 20, 4-6 PM EST

Still furloughed? Juggling work from home with life at home? Starting another semester of remote everything? Determined to change the systems that enable inequality? There’s a lot going on in life right now and it can be challenging (or invigorating!) to navigate it all.

FSA is invested in caring for our community while keeping our commitment to pushing conversations forward. With that in mind, we are offering a monthly drop-in support session with breakout rooms to facilitate specific topic needs or connections. To join, we ask that you register in advance and answer a question to let us know what’s on your mind that you’d like to discuss. Then log on during the two hour session for as long or short a time as you need. We encourage a little venting with a lot of action planning.

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Virtual Social Hour
Thursday, September 10, 5-6 PM EST

We've reimagined our monthly cocktail hour as a virtual social hour! Say hello to your friends and colleagues in fashion studies, and make some new acquaintances.

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Please join Fashion Studies Alliance for our 'Getting to Know' online events where we chat with our fashion studies community from around the world about their career trajectory and current research. 

This week we are joined by Joshua Katcher.

Joshua Katcher is a fashion entrepreneur, author, educator and vegan cheesemonger who has taught at Parsons The New School and LIM college, and has lectured internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainable and ethical fashion. He is on the Advisory Board for The New Fashion Initiative and in 2019 he published Fashion Animals, the first book dedicated to understanding how and why animals are exploited in the fashion industry.

Katcher’s vegan, ethically-made menswear fashion brand, Brave GentleMan was awarded "Menswear Brand of the Year, 2016" and "Most Influential Designer of 2015" by PETA.

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Friday nights are made for fashion films! FSA brings you the third installment of our monthly series that showcases a fashion (or fashion-adjacent) film, a thematic menu and a post-film discussion.

This month’s selection is Ms .45 (1981), directed by Abel Ferrara, produced by Naravon Films.

(Trigger Warning: This film contains violence and depictions of sexual assault.)

Synopsis: A twice-raped New York garment worker (Zoë Tamerlis) becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.

Here’s how to join: 

(Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu items, curated by co-founding FSA members Ariele Elia, Sarah Byrd and Kim Jenkins

Rent/stream Ms .45 and view the film synchronously with us on Friday evening, July 17 at 7:00 pm EDT

Join co-founding members Kim Jenkins and April Calahan via Zoom as they lead a virtual discussion immediately following the film at 8:30 pm EDT 

Document the event with us, using #fsafilmnight

Next month’s film: Martin Margiela: In His Own Words (2020)

#fashionstudies #fashionfilm #ms45

Please join FSA in celebrating the re-launch of co-Founder Kim Jenkins’ Fashion & Race Database. We will be sharing highlights of the site’s objectives and resources, the team members, what the project sets out to accomplish this summer, and celebrating the work created thus far. 

When: Jul 8, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

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*Please note this event was scheduled at a prior date and will now be held June 29th.*

This week we are joined by Brooklyn Lace Guild founder Elena Kanagy-Loux for a lecture on the history of one of fashion’s most complex accessories: lace. Although it may evoke gendered associations with bridal veils and doilies, lace is really an umbrella term for openwork textile techniques across many regions. This lecture will highlight the development of lace over five centuries, from a time when it was more costly than jewels and beloved by men and women alike.

Elena Kanagy-Loux received her BFA in Textile Design from FIT in 2015, after which she was awarded a grant to fund a four-month trip to study lacemaking across Europe. Upon returning to NYC, she co-founded the Brooklyn Lace Guild, and began teaching bobbin lace classes at the Textile Arts Center. In 2018, she completed her MA in Costume Studies at NYU where she wrote her thesis on modern lacemaking culture. Currently she is the Collections Specialist at the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This week we are also adding an option to donate to the NYC Low-Income Artist/Freelancer Relief Fund

Link to the International Organization of Lace, Inc

Friday nights are made for fashion films!

FSA brings you the second installment of our monthly series that showcases a fashion (or fashion-adjacent) film, a thematic menu and a post-film discussion.

This month’s selection is ‘The Gospel According to André’ (2019), directed by Kate Novack. 

Synopsis: “From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Bethann Hardison, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.” Credit: Magnolia Pictures

Here’s how to join: 

(Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu item, curated by co-founding FSA members Ariele Elia, Sarah Byrd and Kim Jenkins.

Rent/stream ‘The Gospel According to André’ and view the film synchronously with us on Friday evening, June 26 at 7:00 pm EDT.

Join co-founding members Kim Jenkins and Sarah Byrd as they lead a virtual discussion immediately following the film at 8:30 pm EDT.

Register here.

Next month’s film: Ms. 45 (1981).

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Please join Fashion Studies Alliance for our next 'Getting to Know' online event.

Next Monday June 22nd at noon we are joined by Amisha (Amy) Padnani, editor on the Obituaries desk at The New York Times and creator of Overlooked, an award-winning project that tells the stories of remarkable women and people of color whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper.

Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries: of heads of state, opera singers, the inventor of Stove Top stuffing and the namer of the Slinky. Only a small percentage of them have chronicled the lives of women and people of color. "It's a chance for the newspaper to revisit its 168-year existence and fill in the gaps for people who were for whatever reason, left out," Padnani notes. The column has inspired a TV series on Netflix.  

Friday nights are made for fashion films! FSA introduces “Film Night,” a monthly series that showcases a fashion (or fashion-adjacent) film, a thematic menu and a post-film discussion.

Our inaugural selection is In Fabric (2019), directed by Peter Strickland. 

Synopsis: “A lonely woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), recently separated from her husband, visits a bewitching London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life. She’s fitted with a perfectly flattering, artery-red gown—which, in time, will come to unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone who comes into its path.” Credit: A24films

Here’s how to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86424727167?pwd=RXZMZjZjT0lEMUl1NzFraGJ1RVhndz09 

(Optional): Prepare/procure the thematic menu items below, curated by co-founding FSA member Ariele Elia 

Rent/stream “In Fabric” and view the film synchronously with your fellow FSA community members on Friday evening, May 22 at 7:00 pm EDT

Join co-founding FSA members Kim Jenkins and Sarah Byrd as they lead a virtual discussion following the film at 9:00 pm EDT .

Share your “FSA Film Night” experience with us, using #fsafilmnight

Next month’s film: Margiela: In His Own Words (2020)

Join us for another installment of our “Getting to Know” online events as we speak with Dr. Julia Petrov, author of Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress and co-editor of Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill.

Dr. Petrov is the Curator of Daily Life and Leisure and Acting Head of History at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Canada. She also teaches and supervises students of dress history and material culture at the University of Alberta.

Join us for this week’s Getting to Know online event when we speak to fashion scholars and curators Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kirkdjian.

Please join us for this week’s Getting to Know online event where we speak to designers Kritika Manchanda & Yayi Chen.

Please join us for the first of our ‘Getting to Know’ online events where we chat with fashion scholars from around the word about their career trajectory and current research.

This week, we are joined by educators and authors Amber Butchart and Alison Matthews David.

Join us for a toast to celebrate the holidays. Pick up some fabric to stitch together holiday gifts for your friend and family. All ticket proceeds go to FABSCRAP to support their efforts of divert textiles from landfills and give them a second life.

Please join the Fashion Studies Journal and Fashion Studies Alliance for a cocktail hour!

It’s a celebration! Please join Fashion Studies Alliance and Jonathan Michael Square for the launch of Fashioning the Self zine!

• copies of Fashioning the Self zine will be available for purchase at the event

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Are you interested in getting your PhD, or are you in the process of doing so? Join us for a discussion about where to apply, what to expect, and how we can support each other. Come prepared with your questions and experiences.

Confirmed participants include:

-Chloe Chapin, MA, Fashion Institute of Technology; currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard University

-Justine De Young, PhD, Northwestern University 

-Lauren Downing Peters, PhD, Stockholm University

-Ellen Sampson, PhD, Royal College of Art 

-Tanya Wetenhall, MA, Fashion Institute of Technology

Cost: $5

Members who wish to use their free event pass enter code Member2019 at checkout.

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Please join Fashion Studies Journal and Fashion Studies Alliance for a cocktail hour to jumpstart 2019!

Clothes with rips, holes, tears, no fear… the Golden Joinery game is here!

Join FSA for a members-only hands-on workshop based on the 500 year-old Japanese art of kintsugi where broken pottery is rejoined with golden seams, celebrating the imperfections.  Bring your needy garments and repair them with all that glitters in this community-based mending session.  All supplies and light snacks provided.

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