Justine De Young

Dr. Justine De Young is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She specializes in the intersection of art and fashion, teaching courses on modern art and fashion history. Her latest book, The Art of Parisian Chic, decodes the details of dress, behavior, and styling that defined late 19th-century Parisian women and traces the invention of the chic Parisienne in art and life. She edited Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 and is the founding editor of the Fashion History Timeline website, which offers expert-written decade overviews and a fashion dictionary, as well as hundreds of essays on fashion in art, museums, and film.