This seminar is offered as part of BGC’s mission to integrate teaching and exhibitions. Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum (September 17, 2022-January 1, 2023), co-curated …

As a highly sought-after commodity in world trade, textiles offer the possibility for a multifaceted study: art history; social, cultural, and economic history; and technology. …

This seminar examines eighteenth-century fashionable dress within the context of the social, cultural, and political history of the period. The emphasis is on France as …

This seminar presents a cultural study of European and American women’s dress from the Belle Époque through the 1980s. Within a chronological framework that …

This is a survey of Western urban fashion from the rise of mercantile capitalism in the 14th century through the revolutionary designs of Paul Poiret. …

Focusing on France as the capital of style, this seminar examines the significance of fashion during a period of major political, economic, and social change. …

This course traces the development of furnishing and dress textiles in Europe and the United States from the highly naturalistic and revival styles of the …

This course explores the reciprocal relationship between fashion and the theatre in France, Britain, and the US from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth …

The course explores the artistic developments that affected interiors, furnishings, and fashion in a dramatic period of change that ushered in modern Europe. After surveying …

Taking its name from British novelist Michael Arlen’s 1924 tale of a fashionable young society widow, this course will explore two intertwined ideas: the representation …