Emily Ripley is an artist, fashion historian, archivist, and educator. Her love of fashion history dovetailed with a keen interest in the arts at an early age, and her work is inspired by the fusion and frisson between these practices. Emily holds a BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. During her graduate studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, she worked as an intern at both the Calvin Klein Archive and the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she also traveled to India for a research project on Parsi Saris. Her museum experiences continued with a post as Research Assistant in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has served as Curator and Collections Manager of the Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection since 2013. As an educator, she aims to bring her students the most inclusive and innovative, multi-disciplinary practices in fashion, material culture studies, the arts, and design. Her awards include a Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant and a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Grant. Emily worked for over seven years in the fashion industry, has been project manager for the artist Sol Lewitt, and has worked collaboratively with the crochet artist Delma Jackson and filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
Emily next to a mannequin sporting a mourning dress of Queen Victoria’s, ca.1887, Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute.
