Women, Design and Fashion

This on-going research area, investigates the, often overlooked, contribution of women to fashion and design, former and current.

  • 2020

    “Slow + Fashion: Women’s Wisdom,” Fashion Practice, The Journal of Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry, Vol 11, Issue 3, London and   New York: Bloomsbury, pp.309-327

  • 2020

    “Communities of Cloth and Style: Fashion, Women and Collective Consciousness during COVID-19,” Public Seminar: Fashion, Emotion and Self, The New School, July 23, https://publicseminar.org/essays/communities-of-cloth-and-style/

  • 2019

    “Press Gang,” The World of Interiors, U.K.: Conde Nast Publications, pp.281-223. (Joyce Clissold and Footprints workshop)

  • 2017

    “Fashioning the 1960s in New York: A Whole New Way of Shopping,” in Phyllis Magidson & Donald Albrecht, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, New York: Museum of the City of New York/The Monacelli Press, pp.55-64.

  • 2015

    “ARTICULO 6: Narratives of Gender, Strength and Politics,” Surface Design Journal

  • 2014

    “Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba” in Susan Yelavich and Barbara Adams (eds) Design as Future Making, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp.128-138.

  • 2013

    Women in New York Fashion: A Research Agenda was a three-year research project initiated in 2013 at Parsons School of Design, with funding from the Geraldine Stutz Trust.

  • 2005

    “The Difference of Female Design”, in Stahl J. (ed) DISH: International Design for the Home, New York: Princeton University Press: 158-161[Reprinted in Clark, H. and Brody D. (eds) Design Studies: A Reader, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2009: 293 – 296]

  • 1997

    “Fashioning Diana”, Global Mourning, Re:Public (ed.), Research Centre for Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney, Australia, pp.133-36.

  • 1997

    “Joyce Clissold,” Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn, U.K., pp.406-7.

  • 1995

     “The Textile Art of Marguerite Zorach” Woman’s Art Journal, U.S.A., vol. 16.1, May, pp. 18-25.

  • 1994

    “Selling Design and Craft” and “Joyce Clissold and the ‘Footprints’ Textile Printing Workshop”, Women Design: Redefining Design in Britain Between the Wars, J. Seddon and S. Worden (eds.), University of Brighton, pp. 58-6 & pp. 82-83.

  • 1988

    “‘Modern Textiles’, 1926-1939”, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society, No.12, pp. 47-54.