Emma McClendon is a fashion historian, curator, and author based in New York City. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, NY. While Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at FIT from 2011-2020, McClendon curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions including Power Mode: The Force of Fashion (2019), The Body: Fashion and Physique (2017) and Denim: Fashion's Frontier (2015). She has also taught in the MA Fashion Studies programs at Parsons School of Design and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, CNN, The Washington Post, Vogue, WWD, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal among others.
Assistant Professor Emma McClendon Discusses the Re-Emergence of Red as a Fashion Trend
Assistant Professor Emma McClendon Discusses the History of Celebrity Fashion Choices
Assistant Professor Emma McClendon Discusses New Fashion Trends in T-Shirts