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Tag: Fashion History

Three men wearing 18th century clown costumes in a production of an opera.

Daniel James Cole Wins Prestigious Award for Costume Design

September 12, 2025 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design

Daniel James Cole, adjunct assistant professor in the Fashion Department, has won the prestigious 2024 Costume Society of America’s Annual […]

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Hilary Davidson and the Jane Austen pelisse she reconstructed on a dress form

Hilary Davidson’s Jane Austen Expertise on Full Display

July 9, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Graduate Studies

A silk pelisse coat created by Associate Professor Hilary Davidson, chair of FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum […]

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Hilary Davidson headshot. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wears a beaded necklace and a black V-neck wrap top with a white floral print. She leans against a concrete gray pillar.

Hilary Davidson Wins Award From Costume Society of America

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Hilary Davidson, associate chair of the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program in the School of Graduate Studies, […]

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Author Valerie Steele signs the title page of her book The Corset.

Valerie Steele Lectures in Budapest on the History of Exhibiting Fashion

February 3, 2025 Laura Hatmaker Faculty/Staff, Museum

In November, Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, delivered a plenary talk about museum fashion exhibitions at the […]

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Yuni Kawamura and a woodblock print of a samurai surrounded by Japanese script

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Dress Historians’ Conference in London

October 17, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of Sociology, presented a paper titled “Japanese Tabi and Footwear in Ukiyo-e” at the Association of […]

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FIT Authors Talks: Hilary Davidson: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen

April 3, 2023 Laura Hatmaker

Professor Hilary Davidson discusses her book, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings, […]

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What Made Fashion So Meaningful for Jane Austen?

January 31, 2023 Irina Ivanova Events, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

Dress historian Hilary Davidson was recently invited to deliver historical lecture on a topic on which she literally wrote the […]

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Berg Encyclopedia and Yuni Kawamura

Yuniya Kawamura Contributes to Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion

May 7, 2021 Laura Hatmaker Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor, Social Sciences, was commissioned to contribute an online exclusive article on “Rompers” for the Berg Encyclopedia […]

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Globally Connected @ FIT: Creating Fashion History Content During a Pandemic

December 1, 2020 Laura Hatmaker

Guest: Darnell Lisby, B.S. in Art History and Museum Professions and an M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies As a […]

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Justine De Young Publishes Articles on Art History Pedagogy and James Tissot

January 23, 2020 Laura Hatmaker Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Liberal Arts

Justine De Young, History of Art, recently published a peer-reviewed article on art history pedagogy for the open access e-journal Art History […]

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