Up the winding staircase leading to the second floor of the Chicago History Museum, a time capsule of Chicago fashion history awaits visitors. The museum’s newest exhibition, “Dressed in History: A ...

Some fashion houses dress celebrities. Valentino dressed history. From royal engagements to red carpets that shaped pop culture, his work exists at the intersection of romance and undeniable presence.

“I feel like a student,” says Kimberly M. Jenkins, professor of fashion history and theory at Ryerson University. She has been in overdrive in the busy lead-up to the relaunch of the Fashion and Race ...

In many ways, preserving the true breadth of Black fashion history is a race against time. For too long, Black designers, models, agencies, innovators, muses, and trends have been sidelined and swept ...

At an opening for a new exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, attendees embraced a musical fashion history. Peter Wright, who goes by Souleo, and Beau McCall, right, at the ...

How to talk about fashion history without Paul Poiret’s “Orientalist” approach; Yves Saint Laurent’s landmark collections inspired by China and Africa, or John Galliano, who threw countless ...

If the sight of a cotton plant stirs up layered, confusing feelings within you, you are not alone. This titan of a crop is woven into countless household items, has generated wealth beyond ...