In this groundbreaking program, students will engage in the evolving field of fashion studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, they will study fashion as object, image, practice, theory, and concept and develop a critical understanding
of its complex intersections with identities, histories, and cultures in the contemporary world. A two-year full-time program, MA Fashion Studies offers a new academic
route for students who want to pursue careers in fashion research, education,
and other cultural industries. Core and elective courses will present broad
perspectives on fashion and its interfaces with design, production, consumption, imagination, representation, embodiment, and identity.

MA Fashion Studies will be based in the School of Art and Design History and
Theory at Parsons, part of The New School, a leading university in New York City.
Drawing on the rich cultural resources of New York City, this interdisciplinary
program will engage with other graduate programs at Parsons, particularly the MA
in the History of Decorative Arts and Design and the new MFA in Fashion Design
and Society*, as well as programs in other New School divisions.