Mary Davis is Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism (2006), Erik Satie (2008), Waiting for A Train: Jimmie Rodgers’s America (2009), and Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion (2010).
Mary Davis
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
Muslim Fashion Is Now Mainstream
Modest Fashion is having a moment. From London catwalks, which hosted the first branded “Modest Fashion Week” in February this year, to gyms and running …
Is There Really No Smart Writing on Women’s Fashion?
Reading Women in Clothes is like spending Saturday afternoon at Nordstrom Rack. Massive, chaotic, and noisy, both are messy in a way that could be inadvertent but could be purposeful: is this disarray a sign of how much they have to offer, or a commercial tactic to make their goods seem limitless? For reader and […]
Thérésa Tallien’s Legacy: Style on the rue de Babylone
Since the 18th century, the rue de Babylone has been a site for salons that bring the haute monde into contact with innovative artists …
