Back to School | A Fashion Symposium

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of its master’s program in Costume Studies, New York University proudly hosts Back to School | A Fashion Symposium.

Participants consider how fashion is and was practiced in classrooms and on campuses and how it is and was analyzed in these same spaces by dress historians, fashion theorists, and design practitioners.

October 6-7, 2023

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Three women sitting on a bench. They are wearing coats and two are looking at something together. — In the foreground, three New York University students on a bench. This photograph was included in The Album 1944. That year’s editor acknowledged a circulating stereotype of NYU students: “bourgeois in bobby-socks and sweaters”. In the background, a male student (perhaps a former soldier), carrying books under his arm. Courtesy of NYU University Archives.

A view from above of students at long tables in the library. — Studying hard in the library. Gloves off, hats off (mostly), and stoles on. This photograph was included in The Album 1940. Courtesy of NYU University Archives.