Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (Yale, 2015), which won the Costume Society of America's prestigious Millia Davenport Publication Award, as well as Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History (Running Press, 2019) and The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion (Running Press, forthcoming December 2020). She writes about fashion, art, and culture for The Atlantic, Politico, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Book and Film Globe, JSTOR Daily, and Ornament, as well as academic journals. She has appeared on NPR, the Biography Channel, Reelz, as well as assorted podcasts and local radio shows. She is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, English), the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, History of Dress), and the University of Aberdeen (PhD, History of Art and French).

Sub-specialities:

Fashion history, 17th-21st centuries
Royal fashion
Marie-Antoinette
Political fashion
Celebrity fashion
Sports fashion
Sneakers
Vintage fashion
American fashion
European fashion
Fashion museums