Fashion and Diversity Series: Fashion and Race I Parsons School of Design

From designers telling their stories through design during New York Fashion Week to scholars groundbreaking work on the compelling histories of Africans and African Americans’ styling practices, this conversation presented by Parsons School of Design (https://www.newschool.edu/Parsons) at The New School (https://www.newschool.edu) will cover how young black fashion industry professionals are rearticulating what it really means to tackle racial diversity.Join Senior Fashion Editor of the Huffington Post, Julee Wilson, as she moderates a conversation with designers, editors, scholars and more on new narratives of blackness in fashion. The event is part of the “Black History Month at Parsons” programming supported by the School of Fashion and the University Student Senate. Location: University Center, UL105 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Friday, February 12, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm