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Fashion Chat: Fashion Victims - Germ Warfare

Join us LIVE on Tuesday, April 21 at 3pm EST 

Join the National Arts Club for a conversation on the history of clothing and contagious disease with fashion historian Dr. Alison Matthews David, moderated by NAC Governor David Zyla. 

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Dr. Alison Matthews David is a historian of dress and textiles, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth-century fashion, accessories and material culture. Her work intersects with multiple areas including medical history, criminology, and occupational health. Her creative work includes fashion curation, and launched the journal Fashion Studies with her co-editor Dr. Ben Barry in 2018. She is the author of  Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). She was awarded a PhD in Art History from Stanford University, and is currently the Graduate Program Director for the School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.