Christina Moon
Associate Professor of Fashion Studies
Email
moonc@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Christina H. Moon is an Associate Professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Her work moves between the global and the personal, from people who make fashion in design studios and garment districts, to the wardrobes, archives, and emotional lives of clothing. Her current writing explores how garments hold the buried histories of memory, diaspora, and lived experience—clothing as witness to inner worlds and as artifacts of historical life. She is the author of Labor and Creativity in New York's Global Fashion Industry (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia (NYU Press, 2019), and her writing has appeared in Vestoj, Critique, and Tank. She is a former fellow of the Graduate Institute of Design Ethnography and Social Thought and member of the Fashion Praxis working group at Parsons. She is the former Director of the MA in Fashion Studies program at Parsons and sits on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of State of Fashion, the Arnhem-based platform for alternative fashion systems; the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education; and Fashion Studies Journal.
Degrees Held
PhD, MPhil, Anthropology, Yale University.
BA Anthropology, Rutgers University.
Professional Affiliation
ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, College Art Association, American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Asian American Studies Association, Association for Asian Studies, American Studies Association, Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles.
Recent Publications
Selected publications:
2025 In the Backseat of a Car. Marlè Magazine. On Escape. Issue 6.
2024 An Intimate Dream. Tank Magazine. Issue 98, February.
2023 Every Day is a Dress. Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters. On Everyday Life. Issue 11.
2023 Foreword: I search for mothers in writing and clothing. Fashion and Motherhood: Image, Materiality, Identity. Edited by Laura Snelgrove. (Bloomsbury).
2023 Closet Feelings. Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress, Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body. Edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. (Palgrave Macmillan).
2022 Histoire d'armoires. Critique : revue générale des publications françaises et étrangères. Les Éditions de Minuit. Juin-Juillet, TOME LXXVIII - No. 901-902, pg 461-471.
2021 Four Decades of Doubt. Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters. Issue 10.
2020 Labor and Creativity in New York’s Global Fashion Industry (Routledge).
2020 The Maintenance and Preservation of Life. Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters. Issue 9.
2019 Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia, co-editers Heijin Lee, Christina Moon, and Thuy Linh Tu (New York University Press).
2019 Ethnographic Entanglements: memory and narrative in the New York fashion industry. In The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion. Edited by Brent Luvaas, Joanne B. Eicher. (Bloomsbury).
2019 Made in China: Material-Meanderings of Fast-Fashion Cities. In Fashion and Materiality. Edited by H. Jenß and Viola Hofman. (Berg).
2018 Fashion City: diasporic connections and garment industrial histories between the US and Asia. Edited by Jamie Doucette and Bae Gyun Park. Special Issue on Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise. Critical Sociology. Volume: 44 issue: 3, page(s): 519-532.
2018 To Dwell in Seams: Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory. Special Issue: Fashion. Anthropology News. Volume 58, Issue 5. (September/October).
Performances and Appearances
Available to Promise; Hidden Systems, Shared Futures - State of Fashion Biennale 2026
Christina Moon On Common Threads, podcast episode, The Recovering Elitist, 2026
Tactile Memory and Technology: Practices of Forgetting and Remembering, a collaborative workshop with Mary Ping
Christina Moon on cultivating community and collective wisdom, podcast episode Fashion Is A Great Teacher
University of the Arts Berlin Defashioning Education with Otto Von Busch 2023
American University of Paris + University of the Arts Berlin Digital Multilogue Fashion Education 2021, Provocation
Research Interests
Fashion, memory, and diaspora; material culture and the archive; labor and the global fashion industry; history of New York fashion; art, design, and craft; visual culture and museums; social and cultural theory; ethnography and literary writing
Awards And Honors
Graduate Institute of Design Ethnography Social Theory, Social Science Research Council, India China Institute, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, Fulbright Program, Korea Foundation
Portfolio
Closet Feelings
The Maintenance and Preservation of Life
Labor and Creativity in New York's Global Fashion Industry
Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia
The Secret World of Fast Fashion