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Mary Davis

Mary Davis

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). icon

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Muslim Fashion Is Now Mainstream

By Mary Davis

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?

By Mary Davis

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 ...

Rue de Babylone

Thérésa Tallien’s Legacy: Style on the rue de Babylone

By Mary Davis

Since the 18th century, the rue de Babylone has been a site for salons that bring the haute monde into contact with innovative artists ...

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