Madeleine Luckel

Madeleine Luckel’s research interests center on the depiction of ornament in art, decorative arts, and material culture during the 19th century and its surrounding decades, with a particular emphasis on textiles and fashion in Western Europe. Madeleine has held curatorial internships at The Met’s Costume Institute, Philadelphia Museum of Art, de Young Museum, Museum at FIT, RISD Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has published two book chapters, “The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art’s Enduring Intersects” in Food and Fashion (Bloomsbury) and “Picture Perfect: Hermès, Its Silk Scarves, and Twenty-First Century Experiential Events” in Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies (Routledge). Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a Senior Design Editor at Architectural Digest, Living Writer at Vogue.com, and Features Associate at Vogue. Madeleine holds an MA in Costume Studies from NYU and a BA in Classics with Honors from Brown University, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is originally from Berkeley, California.

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