Kim Jenkins

Visiting Assistant Professor Fashion Design kjenkins@pratt.edu (718) 636-3415 p Brooklyn Campus, Steuben Hall 2

Current Course Listing

17/FA-FASD-145-01 Contextualizing Fashion

17/FA-FASD-145-02 Contextualizing Fashion

17/FA-HD-368-02 Contemporary Fashion

Personal URL

www.kimberlymjenkins.com

Education

B.A. Cultural Anthropology and Art History, University of Texas at Arlington; M.A. Fashion Studies, Parsons The New School of Design.

Biography

Analyzes fashion as both object and theory in the shaping of culture and identity; co-curated New York’s first-ever fashion exhibition on the work of designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo and cofounded student-run fashion publication BIAS: The Journal of Dress Practice; in 2013, presented her master’s thesis, “That Was My Veil”: Sartorial and Cosmetic Constructions of Resilience in Divorced Women, which investigated the role clothing and cosmetics play in transforming the self in efforts to attain the psychological trait of resilience.