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Students entering Parsons share a common first-year experience. The same course sequence constitutes the first year of every BFA, BBA and BS program, providing a foundational experience that familiarizes students with the tools, methods, and skills of art and design

I worked as an intern for the DMA’s African headdress exhibition and the Jean Paul Gaultier show for about eight months, and during that time I was accepted into the MAFS program and joined their second cohort in 2011. I’m in my fifth year of teaching now, and I continue to find the work incredibly rewarding–not only have I established a career for myself that engages with the evolving discourse in fashion history and theory, but I’m able to help shape it. I will admit that it was rather intimidating going into a classroom to profess the principles and concepts of fashion studies fresh out of the program, as I felt that the field of fashion studies was relatively nascent and still situating itself. I knew since the day of orientation in the MAFS program in 2011 that I wanted to use my scholarship for public-facing work (which would include the incorporation of media).

Plot(s) Journal of Design Studies will be accepting a second round of submissions with a new deadline of November 30, 2018. Journal of Design Studies is an annual peer-reviewed publication produced and edited by the MA Design Studies program at Parsons School of Design in New York. As a multidisciplinary journal, we accept a wide range of formats including: and well-documented design/architectural projects that reflect upon or challenge current design discourse and fit within our theme. We will also be accepting exploratory audio-visual formats including: Digitally-native content will be posted exclusively on Plot(s) Multimedia.

Drawing on the soon-to-be published book, Fashion Installation: Body, Space and Performance (written with Vicki Karaminas), Adam Geczy examines the scenic, the staged and the specular since the beginnings of haute couture at the end of the nineteenth century. While many of the earliest designers and fashion entrepreneurs knew this intuitively, today the spectacle of fashion occurs increasingly in virtual realms, in dreamscapes, where the material garment has all but disappeared. Having published over fifteen books, he along with his long-standing collaborator Vicki Karaminas, is one of the world’s leading scholars on the art-fashion cross-over. He is also editor of two journals with Penn State University Press, and series editor of the book series, Fashion and Visual Cultures (Anthem Press).