Featured Undergraduate Coursework
Modern Art In The City
Modern Art In The City
Modern Art In The City
About Summer:
Summer Anne Lee is a Brooklyn-based fashion historian.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Communication and Media and has an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Summer currently teaches various courses in fashion history at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Insider, InStyle, and Refinery29.
Summer is currently researching the history of American presidential fashion and is documenting this project at @presidentialfashionhistory on Instagram.
Events
"The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie" with the Feminist Lecture Series Virtual Class
'Fashion's Most Famous Designers, Part 1: The First Couturiers' Webinar with the New York Adventure Club
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'Fashion's Most Famous Designers, Part 2: Stars of Modern Fashion' Webinar with the New York Adventure Club
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'Fashion's Most Famous Designers, Part 3: Runway Visionaries' Webinar with the New York Adventure Club
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Exhibitions
Academic Conference Presentations
Costume Society of America
Annual Meeting and Symposium
(May 2021)
Costume Society of America 50th
Annual Meeting and Symposium
(May 2024)
The Association of Dress Historians
"Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure” Conference (October 2022)
“Add-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style International Conference
(October 2023)
The Costume Society UK
Fashioning A Decade – 1980s’ 2023 Conference
(November 2023)
Select Published Writing
Men’s Fashion (and Thievery) in Nineteenth-Century London, Bow Street Police Museum Blog
Bloomers On Bow Street: Dress Reformers Arrested in Victorian London, Bow Street Police Museum Blog
Criminals in Crinolines: Fashion in London, 1800-1860s, Bow Street Police Museum Blog
Eighteenth-Century Fashion Police in Covent Garden, Bow Street Police Museum Blog
"Corset History IV: The Modern Corset," Dark Garden Corsetry Blog
"Corset History III: The 19th Century," Dark Garden Corsetry Blog
"Corset History II: Stays", Dark Garden Corsetry Blog
"Corset History I: The First Corsets", Dark Garden Corsetry Blog
"Norell: Flappers Back in Fashion," FIT Fashion History Timeline
"Vintage Glamour at the Met Gala," The Vintage Woman Magazine
"Good Mourning: Exploring Victorian Memorial Jewelry," The Vintage Woman Magazine
"Fall of the Empire: Romanticism Through Dresses," Enchanted Living Magazine
"Tell Me About It: Studs," The Vintage Woman Magazine
Garment Analysis of 1986 Dress by Patrick Kelly, FIT Fashion History Timeline
Garment Analysis of 1973 Dress by Stephen Burrows, FIT Fashion History Timeline
"An 18th Century Girl’s Dress," Girl Museum Blog
Garment Analysis of 1953 Wedding Dress by Ann Lowe for Jacqueline Kennedy, FIT Fashion History Timeline
"Where Cottagecore Meets Vintage," The Vintage Woman Magazine
"The History of Fashion for Getting Physical," The Vintage Woman Magazine
"Roaring & Swinging: Shared Fashionable Ideals Of Flappers And Mods," FIT Fashion History Timeline
"Vintage Loungewear Retrospective," The Vintage Woman Magazine
Garment analysis of 1840 Queen Victoria's Wedding Dress, FIT Fashion History Timeline
Garment analysis of 1898-1901 Green Silk Embroidered Tea Gown, FIT Fashion History Timeline
Artwork analysis of The Ditchley Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, FIT Fashion History Timeline
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